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MichaelGR comments on Closet survey #1 - Less Wrong
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Killing people, and locking them in prison for 20 years, are both worse than torturing them.
Killing enemy soldiers is not much better than killing enemy civilians.
It is immoral not to put a dollar value on life.
The rate of technological change has been slowing since 1970.
It can't be true that both universal higher education and immigration are social goods, since it is cheaper to just not educate some percentage your own people.
Increasing the population density makes the cost of land rise; and this is a major factor in the cost and quality of life.
Men and women think differently.
Ditto that modern Western women hold very wrong beliefs about what will make them happy.
War is not good for your economy (unless you aren't fighting in it).
"War is not good for your economy (unless you aren't fighting in it)."
That's pretty well accepted in some economics circles. See the broken window fallacy by Frédéric Bastiat.
With notable, perhaps exceptional counter-points (see: the U.S. and WW2).