srdiamond comments on The Nature of Offense - Less Wrong

86 Post author: Wei_Dai 23 July 2009 11:15AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 05 August 2009 07:39:29PM 0 points [-]

"After all, to lower someone’s social status is to cause a real harm."

To lower someone's social status is to cause that person harm. So is taking a person's job, where, also, one's loss is another's gain. Assaults on status do not necessarily lower total utility. Since status is relative, where one loses another gains.