AdeleneDawner comments on Holy Books (Or Rationalist Sequences) Don’t Implement Themselves - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AdeleneDawner 12 May 2011 02:04:29AM 7 points [-]

For clarity: How do you think the members of your local UU congregation would react if one of their members turned up one day and said something along the lines of "you know, I've been thinking about it and doing the math, and it looks to me like war is actually pretty useful, instrumentally - it seems like it saves more lives than it takes, and at least in places with recruitment methods like ours, people who choose to be soldiers seem to get a fairly good deal out of it on average"?

Comment author: handoflixue 12 May 2011 02:31:31AM 5 points [-]

I've been to sermons on exactly that topic, so I'd have to argue that in my experience they take it very well.