MugaSofer comments on Manufacturing prejudice - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 10 December 2012 06:26:39PM *  1 point [-]

Edit: similarly, out of "alcohol", "porn", and "racism", one of the three is not like the others, i.e. it is actually bad.

Alcohol damages health and impairs judgement, causing sizable numbers of deaths every year. Much pornography is produced in ways that harm women, whether they are being physically abused or effectively raped in order to afford food etc.

Comment author: Kindly 10 December 2012 06:41:52PM 1 point [-]

Arguably both could be done without harming others, even if they are not currently done that way; but I don't want to get into this discussion (unfortunately, I also didn't want to leave you without a reply entirely). You do have a point that the difference I wanted to point out isn't actually clear-cut.

Comment author: MugaSofer 11 December 2012 09:10:30AM *  2 points [-]

Racism can also be done without harming others if it doesn't have anyone to be racist to and you're right, this is getting offtopic.