Nick Bostrom wrote:
>it does seem to be a fact that almost all reasonable people agree
>that it is wrong (whatever that means) to torture innocent people
>for a little fun. *If* there are "objective" truths in ethics (which
>I am not claiming) then I think we can be fairly confident that that
>is one of them..
You can find lots of moral statements that 90% of all humans would agree to, and a few statements that 95% would agree with, but that's about as wide a consensus as you can get. Besides, objective truth isn't determined by a vote. If you took a poll on cosmology 1,000 years ago, virtually everyone would have agreed that the sun goes around the Earth. That doesn't mean that it does.
Billy Brown
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