Re: ESSAY: 'Debunking Hippy-Dippy moral philosophy'

From: Metaqualia (metaqualia@mynichi.com)
Date: Mon Jun 14 2004 - 04:15:56 MDT


>And what you are saying is that objective is equivalent to important and
>subjective is equivalent to trivial; it seems to me that readers of this
>list with all the talk about uploading should understand the exact
>opposite is true.

Agree with you 100%

>What does it even mean to say good and evil have an
>objective existence

Well, suppose that something has a subjective existence for every single
observer you care to pick. Would that not make that objective?

> opposite is true. What does it even mean to say good and evil have an
> objective existence, do you expect CERN to find a good particle and a
> evil particle in one of their detectors?

Why discount the possibility? Higgs particles are notoriously _evil_ ask any
collider operator :)

mq



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