drethelin comments on The Phobia or the Trauma: The Probem of the Chcken or the Egg in Moral Reasoning. - Less Wrong

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Comment author: drethelin 15 June 2011 05:43:55PM 1 point [-]

Clearly it was an example of kind and not of magnitude. Car theft is punished for the same reasons as petty theft, but to a much greater extent

Comment author: prase 15 June 2011 05:57:02PM 1 point [-]

The reasons for difference between car theft and petty theft are clear. Not so in the discussed case. The original post claimed not to defend pedophilia, which I interpret as not saying that the rule "do not have sex with children" is bad, but that the social stigma associated with it is far greater than it reasonably should be.