On 31/12/2014 22:16, Matt Mahoney via AGI wrote:
But if ethical beliefs were more than opinions, then there would be no controversy over abortion, animal rights, immigration, gay rights, women's rights, the death penalty, euthanasia, and so on. We could just do experiments to see which side was right.
Nature is performing that sort of experiment all the time. The losing moral systems go extinct. The mere existence of controversy doesn't necessarily indicate there are no underlying facts. Consider, for example, the continuum hypothesis in mathematics, or the battle between kin and group selection in biology. -- __________ |im |yler http://timtyler.org/ [email protected] Remove lock to reply. ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
