Strange7 comments on Is Kiryas Joel an Unhappy Place? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Strange7 26 June 2011 06:54:30AM 6 points [-]

All the 'unpleasant truths' you list seem to be facets of a single underlying issue of genetics. I consider none of them particularly shocking, especially in the weak forms you use there. Damn near any observable fact related to a given person will 'convey nonzero information about their their [sic] social status," so if you're going to use this persona to say what you otherwise couldn't get away with, how about you fill out your theory with some policy suggestions, or at least more specific predictions?

Comment author: sketerpot 26 June 2011 07:48:46AM *  12 points [-]

Careful; LW doesn't seem to scandalize easily, as this thread hilariously demonstrates as people try to discuss shocking things, and everyone fails to be shocked, so people up the ante by combining cannibalism and pedophilia, and so on, in a positive feedback loop.

Actually, don't be careful. That was a fun thread.