JoshPurtell: equal human moral value is stipulated, not genuinely believed
JoshPurtell · x · 2026-09-29
In an AI-ethics exchange, JoshPurtell argues that people who hold all humans have equal moral value don't really believe it — they stipulate it. Trying to account for every soul's value leads to haggling and degeneracy once triaging inevitably becomes necessary, so equal value works only as a fixed convention.
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