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OrphanWilde comments on Moral Anti-Epistemology - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: Lukas_Gloor 24 April 2015 03:30AM

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Comment author: OrphanWilde 02 May 2015 05:50:38PM 3 points [-]

Quit anthropomorphizing groups of people, criminal justice is designed for the sane, sociopathy is defined differently in psychiatry than among the general public, you never actually need to decide whether to save the world-famous violinist or the rather average doctor who occupy the different trolley tracks, and you're believing what the other monkeys tell you about what you should do when their actions are in clear contradiction.

None of that actually matters, though, because you're not actually arguing with me, you're debating points. I didn't give you anything to argue with, you're just so used to people wanting to argue that you tried to find things you could argue -with-. There's nothing there. It's all just assertions of premises you either accept or deny. Arguing about premises doesn't get you anywhere, will never get you anywhere, but you do it anyways. Why?

Do you think ethics are important enough to -defend-, even when there's nothing to be gained from defending them? Why is that?

Comment author: Lumifer 02 May 2015 10:43:50PM -1 points [-]

I didn't give you anything to argue with

LOL. So, are you here for conversations or are you here to make undebatable pronouncements?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 02 May 2015 05:58:57PM -2 points [-]

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