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BerryPick6 comments on Morality Isn't Logical - Less Wrong Discussion

19 Post author: Wei_Dai 26 December 2012 11:08PM

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Comment author: BerryPick6 28 December 2012 02:01:01PM 0 points [-]

I mean, I'm pretty sure his conclusion is a "proposition." It has premises, and I could construct it logically if you wanted.

In fact, I don't understand his position to be "that a moral society should have agreed-upon laws" at all, but rather his use of the original position is an attempt to isolate and discover the principles of distributive justice, and that's really his bottom line.