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Lumifer comments on Systemic risk: a moral tale of ten insurance companies - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 17 November 2014 04:43PM

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Comment author: Lumifer 19 November 2014 02:28:41AM -1 points [-]

If you stick your hand into the fire you'll get burned. If you don't, you won't. See: "reasoning about good and bad outcomes, incentives, choices of action". Is that moral reasoning?

Comment author: fubarobfusco 19 November 2014 07:11:56AM *  0 points [-]

Quite a lot of both traditional and philosophical moral views attribute negative value to self-destructive behavior, actually.

Comment author: Lumifer 19 November 2014 03:28:34PM *  -1 points [-]

I don't see anything self-destructive about sticking your hand into a fire. I've done it and I'm still around :-P

On a bit more serious note, you're confusing moral reasoning itself with the subject of moral reasoning.