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Editor @AreoMagazine Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Writing book about epistemology & ethics on the academic left Helen.pluckrose@areomagazine.com

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    1. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16
      Replying to @adamckolasinski

      ??? I really can't explain any better than that, I'm afraid. If you still don't understand what I mean, saying it all over again is unlikely to help. I am speaking to what is optimum human morality which SH explains by saying it is akin to an optimum human diet.

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    2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16
      Replying to @HPluckrose @adamckolasinski

      You're not following me for the reason religious people generally don't. You'd first need to accept, at least for the sake of argument, that morality is not something humans seek outside themselves but a quality of us, that we can understand as a whole load of 'is's & get right.

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    3. Adam Kolasinski‏ @adamckolasinski Apr 16
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I am perfectly willing to entertain the idea. What I can't understand is how all those 'is's' can possibly provide a rational argument to follow moral precepts that might, on occasion, be against our individual self interest.

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    4. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16
      Replying to @adamckolasinski

      It's the same as how all these 'is's can provide a rational argument for eating an optimal diet that might, on occasion, be against our preferences. These are different things - what is optimal and what we want to do.

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    5. Adam Kolasinski‏ @adamckolasinski Apr 16
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      I don't think that analogy works. The argument for the optimal diet is grounded on it being in my own long-run material self interest. In contrast, to be moral I must do what is right, and that sometimes goes against even my long-run material self interest.

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    6. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16
      Replying to @adamckolasinski

      Do you see that its rational to seek facts on how to have an optimum morality if you want to be optimally moral and rational to seek facts on how best to promote your own interests if you want to do that? So when discussing morality its the former we make arguments about.

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    7. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16
      Replying to @HPluckrose @adamckolasinski

      If you're asking how to make people want to be moral when they want to be selfish or how to make people want to be selfish when they want to be moral, this is a different conversation to an exchange of arguments on how to be moral. Then we're into psychology or neuroscience.

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    8. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16
      Replying to @HPluckrose @adamckolasinski

      When we talk about whether there can be an empirical argument on a subject, this isn't answered 'no' by people not caring about the subject. Arguments about optimal morality assume all participants to care about optimal morality. Dealing with amoral people is a separate subject.

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    9. Adam Kolasinski‏ @adamckolasinski Apr 16
      Replying to @HPluckrose

      My objection isn't that you can't make MAKE people obey. My objection is that empiricism alone can't provide a rational justification why they SHOULD obey. Put another way, empiricism can't specify what should be optimized when attempting to construct the optimal morality.

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    10. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16
      Replying to @adamckolasinski

      What argument can make people think they should be moral if they don't care about morality? What can't be answered with 'Nah, I'm just going to look out for me?' Another 'is' is that people ARE moral. It is not me who is arguing for a 'should' (Ought). I am saying it is all 'is'

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      Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16
      Replying to @HPluckrose @adamckolasinski

      You can't really blame someone who is arguing there is no 'ought' separate from 'is' for not having an 'ought' separate from 'is.' You can only say it won't convince amoral people but this is true of every argument for morality. You'd need to step away from your need for ought.

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        2. Helen Pluckrose‏ @HPluckrose Apr 16
          Replying to @HPluckrose @adamckolasinski

          You're not following because this is counterintuitive to where you are coming from but I'll only be repeating myself if I try to explain further. This is why I get so bored and frustrated with these conversations and don't have them any more. Best to read Sam Harris.

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        3. Adam Kolasinski‏ @adamckolasinski Apr 16
          Replying to @HPluckrose

          Fair enough. I'll go read Harris. At this point tweeting about it isn't likely to be productive.

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