Ben_Jones comments on Does Your Morality Care What You Think? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Ben_Jones 26 July 2008 07:38:54AM 1 point [-]

Keith Adams, if you're too busy to read the post and understand it, don't clog the comments.

Obert wins this one on points, but I'm still not convinced. Consider:

1) if humanity were extinguished in a flash, 2 + 3 = 5 would still hold. 2) if humanity were extinguished in a flash, murder would still be wrong.

While 1 is problematic in its own way, 2 just seems incoherent to me. Morality is generated by the actions of self-aware beings, and as such I can only ever think of it as a fluid abstract. Morality is as people do, nothing more. PK's aliens can conceivably hold theft to be perfectly moral.

One says 'murder is wrong'. I say 'show me the evidence'.