NancyLebovitz comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

97 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 March 2010 11:23PM

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Comment author: clarissethorn 15 March 2010 02:23:54AM 10 points [-]

Sorry if this is overly tangential, but as a sex educator I'm interested to know what you all think are your tribal beliefs around sexuality, and what kind of sexuality-related arguments would lead you to consider someone to be defending a non-mainstream belief.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 15 March 2010 03:12:58PM *  9 points [-]

Someone who believes that homosexuality is not immoral, but believes it is a dysfunction.

Actually I have more answers, but this question is just too toxic. So I'll go meta: Anyone who responds to this question either by saying that rationality is indicated either by signalling acceptance of more-outlandish sexuality, or by signalling intolerance, is indicating their own irrationality; they are turning this question into a tribal test.

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 15 March 2010 03:24:55PM 6 points [-]

How far can you judge a person's rationality by what sort of evidence they use to support their beliefs about sexuality?

Comment author: PhilGoetz 15 March 2010 03:38:15PM 0 points [-]

That's a specific instance of what this post is about, right?