Wei_Dai comments on Morality Isn't Logical - Less Wrong Discussion
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What I mean by "morality" is the part of normativity ("what you really ought, all things considered, to do") that has to do with values (as opposed to rationality).
In general, I'm not sure how to show a negative like "it's impossible to reason carefully about subject X", so the best I can do is exhibit some subject that people don't know how to reason carefully about and intuitively seems like it may be impossible to reason carefully about. Take the question, "Which sets really exist?" (Do large cardinals exist, for example?) Is this a convincing example to you of another subject that may be impossible to reason carefully about?