DanArmak comments on Offense versus harm minimization - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DanArmak 23 April 2011 02:19:46PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure people can voluntarily self-modify in this way. Even if it's possible, I don't think most real people getting offended by real issues are primarily doing this.

I think such modification mostly happens on the level of evolution, especially cultural and memetic evolution. Individual humans are adaptation executers who can't deliberately self-modify in this way, but those who are more pre-modified are more evolutionarily successful.