thomblake comments on The Nature of Offense - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 25 July 2009 10:29:02PM 1 point [-]

If I were badly disfigured

Beware of hypotheticals.

If I were badly disfigured I would much prefer people saying that to my face than babbling off a lie. I would even prefer it to silence.

Would you also prefer it to talking about something relevant, like whatever you happened to be meeting about?

"Hi, I'm Amy. Nice to meet you. Now to get right down to business, let's look at this chart..."
"Hi, I'm Amy. Nice to meet you. Man, you're ugly...

In most cases, there's nothing to be gained by #2.