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Re:Scientists 'Inject' Information into Monkeys’ Brains by ben_w on Friday December 08, 2017 @09:38AM (#15878853)
Mm.

Counter point: Different people mean different things by the word “murder”. Does abortion count? I’d say no, but plenty of people disagree with me, violently. Does the death penalty count? I’d say yes, but again, plenty disagree violently. Does it count if you kill foreigners after invading their land? Does it count if you kill a chimp? If you euthanise a dog? A hamster? If you kill a prawn for dinner? People disagree on all of these.

Or “theft”: is taxation theft? Or is avoiding taxation theft?

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Re:Scientists 'Inject' Information into Monkeys’ Brains by dwaltrip on Friday December 08, 2017 @11:13AM (#15879686)
There are differences, but that is too be expected if one views morality as just another human abstraction. There are different human cultures, and people are raised with different influences in varying environments.

I find changes in morality as somewhat analogous to changes in language. They are both messy, ambiguous, chaotic, emergent processes that don't result in a single output.

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