shokwave comments on Tell Your Rationalist Origin Story - Less Wrong

30 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 February 2009 05:16PM

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Comment author: shokwave 14 December 2010 07:13:06AM 0 points [-]

Fictional evidence, but the victims in the SAW movies weren't seen as noble.

Comment author: Desrtopa 14 December 2010 07:18:33AM 0 points [-]

I haven't seen them, but point taken. Am I right in assuming though, that they were deliberately built up as unsympathetic prior to being gruesomely killed? If you want to lower the group's status, it's that build up, where their characters are given a systematically negative portrayal, that you want to aim for, not the gruesome comeuppance.

Comment author: shokwave 14 December 2010 08:29:46AM 0 points [-]

Yes. The method of murder bore some (often ironic) link to flaws in the victim's psyche or character.