taryneast comments on A Sense That More Is Possible - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taryneast 08 April 2011 02:36:18PM *  2 points [-]

The sides are "those who condemn (so as to discourage) the use of pickup" and "those who see nothing wrong with pickup".

Forgive me, but this is the fallacy of the excluded middle (it's possible you do not ascribe to there being just two sides, but you are unclear on this point).

The "sides" as I see it also include, at the very least:

"those who condemn certain common practices of pickup that deliberately harm other people, but are fine with (or even encourage) other practices that are not"