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BiasedBayes comments on An attempt in layman's language to explain the metaethics sequence in a single post. - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: BiasedBayes 13 October 2016 11:45:12AM 0 points [-]

Morality binds and blinds. People derive moral claims from emotional and intuitive notions. It can feel good and moral to do amoral things. Objective morality has to be tied to evidence what really is human wellbeing; not to moral intuitions that are adaptions to the benefit of ones ingroup; or post hoc thought experiments about knowledge.