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ikrase comments on Open thread, August 12-18, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: ikrase 13 August 2013 10:16:19AM 0 points [-]

Yeah, sort of. That's basically the case for which faction membership is not in question and is not mutable.

The only time I've really heard it formalized is in Plato's Republic where one of the naive interlocutors suggests that morality consists of "doing good to one's friends and harm to one's enemies".