David_J._Balan comments on Inner Goodness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: David_J._Balan 14 November 2008 06:18:27PM 1 point [-]

It seems to me that what's internal about morality is the buy-in, the acceptance that I ought to care about the other fella at all. But much of what remains is external in the sense that the specific rules of morality to which I subject myself are (at least to a large extent) the product of objective reasoning.