Morendil comments on Undiscriminating Skepticism - Less Wrong

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

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Comment author: thomblake 15 March 2010 05:21:29PM 1 point [-]

I see no sound basis to distinguish sex from another sensual experience like dinner.

I'm not the first to point this out, but by that reasoning, rape is no worse than forcing someone to eat broccoli.

Comment author: Morendil 15 March 2010 05:32:10PM 8 points [-]

I'd appreciate if you would read my parenthetical qualifications before making misleading comments about my "reasoning".

I disapprove of coercion in general, but it seems clear that people in general experience sex as a much more significant experience than eating, to the extent that rape can make for life-threatening emotional trauma. Given these (possibly local) facts of human nature, we would clearly not agree to a social contract that provided no protection from rape.