Swimmer963 comments on Thoughts on moral intuitions - LessWrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 29 June 2012 09:10:18PM *  2 points [-]

I'll expand this answer tomorrow, to give you a proper response. Especially on the topic you picked, despite it being a rather poor example for me personally because it is one of the few parts where I have little objection to modern liberal views.

I'm much more socially conservative on things like my opinion on say gender roles, and in my criticism of various 20th century social and cultural movements. Also I toy with more radical reactionary thought such as my current estimate that Monarchy is a jolly good idea when you have a good ruling family, that democracy is incompatible with liberty and that "liberalism" is non-theistic Christianity. Also I think that Peter Thiel is right about the causes of technological stagnation. I'm not yet sure we actually are stagnating in the "world of stuff" as he calls it, but I am sure we are paying a large opportunity cost in terms of what we could do if it wasn't for those problems.

Even before I started thinking about such issues I thought the American revolution a mistake, the French a disaster and the Russian one both.

Fun Fact: Once you dump the odd notion of moral progress occurring in our recorded history rather than merely moral change it becomes much easier to coherently preserve and argue for your values (whatever they may be).

Comment author: Swimmer963 01 July 2012 08:36:17PM 1 point [-]

Fun note: Once you dump the odd notion of moral progress occurring in our recorded history rather than merely moral change it becomes much easier to coherently preserve and argue for your values (whatever they may be).

Upvoted just for that line, because this is something I have to work on reminding myself of.