thomblake comments on Of Exclusionary Speech and Gender Politics - Less Wrong

62 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 21 July 2009 07:22AM

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Comment author: thomblake 21 July 2009 08:43:11PM *  1 point [-]

One of the (few?) areas where I would disagree with Nussbaum. She believes that ordinary human emotions are informative and should be taken seriously, with the special case that disgust should be ditched entirely, and I'm pretty sure there's at least an obvious tension there.

Comment author: nerfhammer 21 July 2009 09:15:45PM *  1 point [-]

I don't necessarily agree with Nussbaum, I just thought it was interesting and related.

There is ample stuff that's perhaps more empirical