Sengachi comments on By Which It May Be Judged - LessWrong

35 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 10 December 2012 04:26AM

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Comment author: Sengachi 21 December 2012 08:34:59AM 0 points [-]

Child neglect implies harm. It is the harm that is immoral. If humans left young to fend for themselves, there would be no inherent harm and so it would not be immoral. We always need to remind ourselves why we consider something to be bad, and not assign badness to words like "child neglect".

Comment author: Peterdjones 21 December 2012 11:28:04AM 0 points [-]

That's kind of what I was trying to say.