RobinHanson comments on Is Morality Given? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RobinHanson 06 July 2008 08:39:17PM 0 points [-]

Richard, I agree that some social norms help a society prosper while others can "burn" it. And we have the intuition that morally right acts correspond to social norms that help societies prosper. But we would have had that intuition even if morally right acts had corresponded to the opposite. What evolutionary pressure could have produced the correct intuitions about this meta question?