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The idea of an error rate requires the existence of an objective measure of accuracy. If there's no objectively right answer, there can be no real error.

Which would mean that error is simply how far your beliefs/actions deviate from your personal moral values. In which case, the least-error prone morality is that everyone should do whatever they happen to do regardless of anything, since your error will be zero.Or that you're always right no matter what you do, though that doesn't make other people moral.

TLDR: thinking of morality in terms of minimizing error just doesn't work.

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Robin,I wasn't trying to say that you didn't mean your clarification. It just doesn't square well with what you say in other places of the post.

But that wasn't my main worry anyway. What do you think about the non-moral character of the pencil case and the other cases you base the minimal principle on? Shouldn't the simple cases we're basing the moral principle on be moral cases that we'd have moral intuitions about?

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