Stephen_Weeks comments on Ethical Inhibitions - Less Wrong

21 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 19 October 2008 08:44PM

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Comment author: Stephen_Weeks 20 October 2008 05:08:50AM 3 points [-]

Psy-Kosh: I don't think I have, but I'm not very sure on that point. I don't remember ever wanting to do something that I both felt would be wrong and wouldn't have consequences otherwise. The part that was particularly unusual to me was the idea of something not only being "wrong", but universally unacceptable, as in:

If you have the sense at all that you shouldn't do it, you have the sense that you unconditionally shouldn't do it.