Do you really think you can show an example of a true moral universal?
Thou shalt not destroy the universe.
Thou shalt not kill every living and/or sentient being including yourself.
Thou shalt not kill every living and/or sentient except yourself.
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From: "Jef Allbright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 2:53 PM
Subject: **SPAM** Re: [agi] Religion-free technical content
On 10/2/07, Mark Waser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Wrong. There *are* some absolute answers. There are some obvious
universal
"Thou shalt not"s that are necessary unless you're rabidly anti-community
(which is not conducive to anyone's survival -- and if you want to argue
that community survival isn't absolute, then I'll just cheerfully ignore
you).
I see "community", or rather cooperation, as essential to morality.
(Quite ironic that you would write someone off for disagreement over
the value of community!)
As for moral absolutes, they fail due the non-existence of an absolute
context.
As for moral universals, humans can get pretty close to universal
agreement on some key principles, but this is true only to the extent
that we share common values-assessment function based on shared
cultural, genetic, physical... heritage.) So not quite universal now,
and bound to broaden. Do you really think you can show an example of
a true moral universal?
- Jef
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