ciphergoth comments on Offense versus harm minimization - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ciphergoth 20 April 2011 01:08:30PM 5 points [-]

Wow, really? From an atheist background, to me I'm much more horrified by the thought of any unique hand-created book being burned than any printed thing for which there are endless copies.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 20 April 2011 01:23:07PM 8 points [-]

Wow, really? From an atheist background, to me I'm much more horrified by the thought of any unique hand-created book being burned than any printed thing for which there are endless copies.

Er, Torah scrolls are hand-written. The scroll form is always made by a scribe, not printed.

Comment author: ciphergoth 20 April 2011 01:37:07PM 6 points [-]

is enlightened thanks!

Comment author: NancyLebovitz 20 April 2011 09:11:10PM 2 points [-]

I think you missed what ciphergoth was reacting to-- I said that I'd be more upset at a Torah scroll being destroyed than a hand-written Christian bible. This doesn't mean that I'd have no reaction to the Christian destroying a hand-written Christian bible.

What I was imagining for the hand-written bible was one without illustrations, but that probably wouldn't make any emotional difference for ciphergoth.

Comment author: whpearson 20 April 2011 02:18:34PM 3 points [-]

Is the emotion the same if someone made a sufficiently detailed scan of it before they burnt it?

Comment author: ciphergoth 20 April 2011 09:38:05PM *  3 points [-]

If it's detailed enough that sufficiently advanced technology could rebuild it indistinguishably, I'm happy. I'm curious how other people feel about this!