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Nornagest comments on Open thread, 21-27 April 2014 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Nornagest 21 April 2014 11:42:36PM *  2 points [-]

Sounds to me like the master's jumping to more conclusions than the student is, here. His response makes sense if he wanted to break a sufficiently specific deontology (at least at interspecies scope), but there are a lot of more general things you could say about morality that aren't yet ruled out by the student's question.