Marshall comments on Could Anything Be Right? - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 18 July 2008 07:19AM

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Comment author: Marshall 18 July 2008 10:49:20AM 2 points [-]

I think Eliezer is saying: We know on average what's right and what's wrong. It is part of being human. There are different versions of being human and thus our rights and wrongs are embedded in time and place. It is in the "Thickness" of living with others we know what and how to do. Mostly it is easy. Because morality is human. Stopping up and thinking about all this gives what Michael Vassar calls "Aack!!! Too... many... just so stories... bad evolutionary psychology... comment moderation... failing."