NancyLebovitz comments on Positive Thinking - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 March 2011 08:23:37AM *  2 points [-]

However, there are people who've contracted HIV because condoms were forbidden, and personally didn't do anything contravening the religion's rules.

Catholics are not generally considered fundamentalists. ETA: now that I've read more of the thread, it seems that you're using "fundamentalist" to mean people who don't care about the effects of their beliefs. Is there a difference between that and being a consistent deontologist?

Comment author: Vladimir_M 07 March 2011 08:35:53AM 1 point [-]

NancyLebovitz:

However, there are people who've contracted HIV because condoms were forbidden, and personally didn't do anything contravening the religion's rules.

What concrete scenarios do you have in mind?

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 March 2011 09:07:15AM 0 points [-]

Spouse of someone with HIV. Raped by someone with HIV. Born to someone with HIV.