[ExI] insanity plea

Mike Dougherty msd001 at gmail.com
Mon Feb 18 22:54:18 UTC 2013


On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 5:48 AM, Anders Sandberg <anders at aleph.se> wrote:
> Hmm, being in ethics makes you doubt most commonsense definitions of right
> and wrong, should it be regarded as a form of legal insanity? No: ethicists
> criticise *moral* right and wrong in strange ways, but they have little to
> say about legal right and wrong. That is another faculty.

Are you using "faculty" here as in definition 1 or definition 3?  :)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/faculty


... & is your quote (above) what a meta-ethicist would say?



More information about the extropy-chat mailing list