Quote Originally Posted by Viking View Post
That skill and knowledge (or logic) should be separate things strike me as a false dichotomy. Think of craftsmanship: we can program a robot to recreate even the finest work made by hand. The robot does this by following purely logical routines.
True, it is a false dichotomy. However, the difference between a robot and a human is that a human can know what the right thing is and still not do it. There are plenty of people who have known since they were kids what is right and what is wrong and they still go off and do terrible things, murder, theft, bringing down the world economy through fraudulently rated, high risk, mortgage bundles. The robot has no choice but to make the work of art, while the human does. That's why I view morality through behaviors and not if they hold themselves to a logical code.

(and of course, whether something sounds dumb is ultimately irrelevant )
:D

If you encounter repugnant choices, then presumably something is incorrect about your moral theory (as far as this is something undesired).
Can you think of any modern theory (enlightenment until today) that doesn't lead to any repugnant choices?