Comment by jamie2 on Traditional Capitalist Values · 2008-10-17T21:30:29.000Z · LW · GW

If sufficiently intelligent and with a need to convince themselves that they are moral, it seems to me that cancer cells could come up with a similar list of virtues.

Comment by jamie2 on Traditional Capitalist Values · 2008-10-17T21:30:16.000Z · LW · GW

If sufficiently intelligent and with a need to convince themselves that they are moral, it seems to me that cancer cells could come up with a similar list of virtues.

Comment by jamie2 on Beyond the Reach of God · 2008-10-05T15:04:00.000Z · LW · GW

A.R.: The standard rebuttal is that evil is Man's own fault, for abusing free will.

That only excuses moral evil, not natural evil.