wedrifid comments on Rationality and Relationships September 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: sam0345 03 September 2011 02:53:26AM 4 points [-]

Why subject limited?

If discussion of a certain topic results in one sided and disproportionate unpleasantness, driving out certain folk, this is likely to affect a wide range of subjects, since one can usually infer that if someone is intolerant of belief X, he is intolerant of beliefs Y and Z. Intolerance usually reflects a belief system which is apt to have an official line on just about everything.

Since mentioning the most obvious and important example of such a belief system is apt to have adverse consequences, I will mention a substantially less important and less menacing example of such a belief system, that of the Ayn Rand institute.

Comment author: wedrifid 03 September 2011 03:42:31AM 1 point [-]

Why subject limited?

Just the zoom setting. I wasn't talking about plausible broad ramification - even though they obviously do exist.