Are there no vegetarians on OvBias?I'm one. (But I don't comment generally, just read.)
I guess I don't properly understand the question. I don't know what "nothing is moral and nothing is right" means. To me, morality appears to be an internal thing, not something imposed from the outside: it's inextricably bound up with my desires and motives and thoughts, and with everyone else's. So how can you remove morality without changing the desires and motives and thoughts so that I would no longer recognise them as anything to do with me, or removing ...
I'm still trying to understand what Eliezer really means by this question. Here is a list of a few reasons why I don't kill the annoying kid across the street. Which of these reasons might disappear upon my being shown this proof?
1. The kid and his friends and family would suffer, and since I don't enjoy suffering myself, my ability to empathise stops me wanting to.
2. I would probably be arrested and jailed, which doesn't fit in with my plans.
3. I have an emotional reaction to the idea of killing a kid (in such circumstances -- though I'm not actuall... (read more)