brazil84 comments on Offense versus harm minimization - Less Wrong

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Comment author: brazil84 17 April 2011 10:55:45PM 4 points [-]

"I'm in the US, and pay taxes to the US government, but I didn't invade Afghanistan."

I agree, that's exactly the point. When I said that "Muslims are not asking nicely," I was not referring to every last Muslim.

"The original thought-experiment asked us to imagine that all British people suffered from salmon-phobia. This assumes a level of distinction that in real life, we would regard as a fallacy"

Agree, the original thought experiment would be more accurate if British people had the same sort of general feeling about fish which Muslims have about Koran-burning.

And in that case, my original point still stands.