Peter_Turney comments on Changing Your Metaethics - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 27 July 2008 12:36PM

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Comment author: Peter_Turney 27 July 2008 02:15:21PM 3 points [-]

If you say, "Killing people is wrong," that's morality.

It seems to me that few people simply say, "Killing people is wrong." They usually say, if asked for possible exceptions, "Killing people is wrong, except if you're a soldier fighting a legitimate war, a police officer upholding the law, a doctor saving a patient from needless suffering and pain, an executioner for a murderer who has had a fair trial, a person defending himself or herself from violent and deadly attackers ..." It seems that most of the debate is over these exceptions. How do we resolve debate over the exceptions without recourse to metamorality?