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DanArmak comments on Blues, Greens and abortion - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanArmak 08 March 2011 09:54:38PM 0 points [-]

Most people don't care about internal consistency between their opinions. In fact, in my experience, very few people actually take seriously the explicit meanings of their claims about morality, ethics, values, laws, etc.

They care about winning debates, signalling affiliation, that kind of thing. There's no point in taking their claims seriously and formally disproving them, because they don't take their claims seriously themselves - certainly not to the standards expected by this community.