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I think it actually is a value difference, just like Blueberry said.
I do not want to participate in nastiness (loosely defined). It's related to my inclination not to engage in malicious gossip. (Folks who know me personally consider it almost weird how uncomfortable I am with bashing people, singly or in groups.) It's not my business to stop other people from doing it, but I just don't want it as part of my life, because it's corrosive and makes me unhappy.
To refine my own position a little bit -- I'm happy to consider anti-PC issues as matters of fact, but I don't like them connotationally, because I don't like speaking ill of people when I can help it. For example, in a conversation with a friend: he says, "Don't you know blacks have a higher crime rate than whites?" I say, "Sure, that's true. But what do you want from me? You want me to say how much I hate my black neighbors? What do you want me to say?"
I don't think that's an issue that argument can dissuade me from; it's my own preference.
Asserting group inequalities means speaking more ill of one group of people but less ill of another, so doesn't that cancel out?
I'm not talking about empirical claims, I'm talking about affect. I have zero problem with talking about group inequalities, in themselves.