gelisam comments on Open Thread: May 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: gelisam 02 May 2010 03:46:21PM 0 points [-]

could you link some of these stories, please? I am known to entertain utopian ideas from time to time, but if utopias really do hurt people, then I'd rather believe that they hurt people.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 May 2010 03:49:27PM 2 points [-]

Personal stories, from a friend, so no, there's no place to link them. Well-meaning liberals have either hurt, or failed to help, him and people close to him.

Comment author: Matt_Simpson 02 May 2010 04:48:33PM *  1 point [-]

Communism is one utopia that ended in disaster, see Rummel's Death by Government

Comment author: xamdam 02 May 2010 04:23:13PM 1 point [-]

I recommend reading Blank Slate to get a good perspective on the Utopian issues; the examples (I was born in USSR) are trivial to come by, but the book will give you a mental framework to deal with the issues.