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

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Comment author: conchis 22 July 2009 09:36:00AM *  1 point [-]

But the thing is, we're interested in the truth. What you or anyone else will use it for is their own business.

Interesting, I don't agree with this at all. Perhaps it comes down to a difference between those of us who are most interested in truth, and those of us who are most interested in winning.

Insofar as anyone's utility function has a term for people-not-being-converted-to-Christianity, people-not-buying-loads-of-crap-they-don't-need, or people-not-treating-members-of-whatever-gender-they-happen-to-be-attracted-to-as-sexual-trophies, what others do with knowledge is their business. Which is not to say that they should somehow censor people who advocate such things; but I wouldn't expect them to sit idly by and pretend that they think these goals are all fine and dandy either.