taw comments on Should we have secular churches? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: taw 23 January 2011 03:03:47PM 3 points [-]

I've never been too closely involved in the community but from my limited observation BSDM groups also have failures modes just as bad as religious communities.

Comment author: sixes_and_sevens 23 January 2011 03:14:34PM 2 points [-]

Are these the failure modes common to most social groups, or something special?

Comment author: JoshuaZ 23 January 2011 03:12:43PM 1 point [-]

Certainly they seem to have failure modes (not personally involved in the community but have friends who are) but I''m curious what failure modes you think are just as bad as religion. I've never for example heard anyone from such a community advocate an anti-epistemology as a fundamental community norm.

Comment author: Pavitra 08 March 2011 04:57:12AM 0 points [-]

BDSM tends to attract a higher-than-usual proportion of openly misogynistic and otherwise abusive men.