Vaniver comments on Humans in Funny Suits - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 July 2008 11:54PM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 07 December 2014 07:38:10PM *  0 points [-]

Isn't "people who do things that my morality says is bad" the very definition of "bad people"?

If we just taboo "bad things" in my original comment and replace it with "hurt others", it doesn't lose any of its original intention.

Comment author: Vaniver 08 December 2014 04:10:42PM 0 points [-]

Isn't "people who do things that my morality says is bad" the very definition of "bad people"?

I think this is true of only a broad class of moralities, rather than all moralities- consider, say, a Calvinist view where some people are good and others are bad and this is only weakly, if at all, correlated to the actions they take.