Tim_Tyler comments on The Bedrock of Morality: Arbitrary? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Tim_Tyler 15 August 2008 09:58:33PM 0 points [-]

I would be interested in hearing their philosophical arguments then as for why the rabbit should be eating grass or the rabbit should be in the fox's stomach. I understand, of course, that the rabbit does eat grass and that the fox does hunt the rabbit, but I was not aware that these were persuasive moral arguments.

They are to the parties in question:

The rabbit argues that if it is eaten by the fox, then it will die - and that should not happen.

The fox argues that if it doesn't eat rabbits, then it will die - and that should not happen.

Neither considers the death of the other to be of much conseqence: for rabbits, foxes are evil rabbit-eaters, while foxes see rabbits as mere dumb lifestock.