Capla comments on Why do you really believe what you believe regarding controversial subjects? - Less Wrong Discussion
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I agree about preferring complexity in factual questions, but in moral ones? We always want to acknowledge the tradeoffs, but sometimes the moral stance is just simple.
http://www.yudkowsky.net/singularity/simplified/
Factual questions are really the only ones that I find complicated enough to be worth discussing. Moral questions don't really make sense to me, because the answer is always 'what is best for me personally averaged over the long term'.