bcoburn comments on Dark Arts 101: Using presuppositions - Less Wrong

65 Post author: PhilGoetz 27 December 2010 05:16PM

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Comment author: bcoburn 30 December 2010 08:52:31PM 0 points [-]

Voted down because this is a really bad way to make a point.

On the other hand, the basic point is a good one: "they'll learn from it" is not in general a good reason for doing things that hurt people in whatever sense.

Comment author: shokwave 31 December 2010 12:12:23AM *  1 point [-]

"they'll learn from it" is not in general a good reason for doing things that hurt people in whatever sense.

"They'll learn from it" is most definitely a good reason for doing things that hurt people in the specific case of people trying to hurt you (and learning not to). That is why I specified zero-sum games above.