prase comments on Thoughts on moral intuitions - LessWrong

39 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 30 June 2012 06:01AM

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Comment author: taw 30 June 2012 11:34:45AM 1 point [-]

I probably have very different sense what's moral and what isn't from the author (who claims to be American liberal), but I agree with pretty much everything the author says about meta-morality.

Comment author: prase 30 June 2012 11:40:26AM 0 points [-]

The author doesn't claim to be American and in fact is, as far as I know, Finnish.

Comment author: shokwave 30 June 2012 05:19:53PM 6 points [-]

Potentially "American liberal" is American-flavour liberalism, and not an American who is also a liberal.

Comment author: prase 01 July 2012 05:52:05PM 2 points [-]

Damn ambiguous natural languages, you may be right.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 01 July 2012 09:10:06PM 0 points [-]

Though it should probably be noted that I used "liberal" mostly a convenient shorthand to characterize my views regarding gay rights, rather than as a characterization of my political views in general. I expect there to be a number of issues on which my views map badly to the views of the typical American liberal, though I don't actually know American politics well enough to know exactly what views those are.