You're looking at Less Wrong's discussion board. This includes all posts, including those that haven't been promoted to the front page yet. For more information, see About Less Wrong.

seer comments on Discussion of Slate Star Codex: "Extremism in Thought Experiments is No Vice" - Less Wrong Discussion

15 Post author: Artaxerxes 28 March 2015 09:17AM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (110)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: seer 31 March 2015 05:10:59AM 5 points [-]

You'd be amazed what can seem intuitive when you find yourself in a situation where it would be really convenient for Joe to die.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 31 March 2015 08:28:03PM *  0 points [-]

That would mean that atheist morality is context dependent, for instance applying different standards at peacetime and wartime. Historically, Christian morality serms to be similar.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 31 March 2015 08:38:56PM 0 points [-]

For all that Christian moralists criticize situationalist ethics, I've found that all ethical systems inevitably end up being situationalist; i.e. "thou shalt not kill" except when God commands otherwise.