Thursday, December 08, 2011

Yay for Good! Boo for Bad!

"Remember, evolution is a crazy tinker who recycles everything. So it would not be surprising to find that our morality is a quick hack on the same machinery that runs our decisions about which food to eat or which pet to adopt."


- LessWrong User Name: Yvain


http://lesswrong.com/lw/bk/the_trouble_with_good/

1 comment:

Kevin said...

I do not have a philosophically rigorous code of morality, but emotivism isn't enough for me. It's good, but not perfect.

Sometimes, calling something "good" or "bad" goes beyond cheerleading for me. I do believe in a few moral absolutes, and that many situations can be objectively called morally good or bad.