sam0345 comments on Rationality Lessons Learned from Irrational Adventures in Romance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sam0345 12 October 2011 09:32:30AM -1 points [-]

Even from childhood we know that pain caused by deliberate insults

But very rarely is someone in trouble for making a deliberate insult. When people get in trouble for being politically incorrect, they are accused of wrongthink, not intentionally insulting any specific identifiable person.

Comment author: pedanterrific 12 October 2011 05:22:33PM 1 point [-]

"Wrongthink" is oldspeak. Say 'ungoodthink'.

Also, I'm curious whether you think your assertion holds in cases where an activist organization of (Group X) is the entity that accuses a speaker of political incorrectness towards Group X.