Nominull3 comments on Whither Moral Progress? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Nominull3 16 July 2008 07:21:24PM 0 points [-]

A moral state X represents progress from moral state Y if people in both moral state X and moral state Y agree that X is better after being presented with the arguments. That is, X represents progress from Y if all it takes is the right way of thinking about it to convince someone from Y to move to X.