cousin_it comments on What bothers you about Less Wrong? - Less Wrong

18 Post author: Will_Newsome 19 May 2011 10:23AM

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Comment author: cousin_it 19 May 2011 06:30:39PM 15 points [-]

If you try to do moral philosophy, you inevitably end up thinking a lot about people getting run over by trolleys and such. Also if you want to design good chairs, you need to understand people's butts really well. Though of course you're allowed to say it's a creepy job but still enjoy the results of that job :-)

Comment author: PlaidX 19 May 2011 09:52:03PM 4 points [-]

I haven't read TOO much mainstream philosophy, but in what I have, I don't recall even a single instance of torture being used to illustrate a point.

Maybe that's what's holding them back from being truly rational?