Aaron_Boyden comments on Changing Your Metaethics - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: Aaron_Boyden 27 July 2008 03:30:59PM 1 point [-]

Peter, most of the reasons people give for making exceptions are not themselves meta. For most of the examples you give, the intuitive justification is something along the lines of "the reason killing is wrong is that life is valuable, and in these cases not killing would involve valuing life less than killing would." Nothing meta there.