Kevin comments on Teachable Rationality Skills - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Kevin 01 June 2011 07:19:51AM *  1 point [-]

"Considered" immoral, perhaps, but I hope you don't have such a naive understanding of morality as to think that people considering something immoral is actually evidence of its immorality.

Ticket resale is mostly illegal to do outside of venues, and mostly legal to do online via large sites such as eBay and Stubhub and Ticketnetwork. It's the latter I suggest, not the former.

Comment author: handoflixue 01 June 2011 06:54:38PM 2 points [-]

Given what mainstream morality has to say about me, I'd have to be actively self-flagellating to make that mistake :)

The way scalping got suggested made me think that the original suggester was genuinely unaware of the fact that there could be social or even legal consequences, and that seemed dangerous to me.

Comment author: RichardKennaway 01 June 2011 11:38:06AM 3 points [-]

"Considered" immoral, perhaps, but I hope you don't have such a naive understanding of morality as to think that people considering something immoral is actually evidence of its immorality.

Of course it's evidence. Not conclusive evidence, but still evidence.