DanielLC comments on Don't ban chimp testing - Less Wrong

15 Post author: PhilGoetz 01 October 2011 05:17PM

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Comment author: DanielLC 01 October 2011 11:28:43PM 3 points [-]

Right. Forgot about that.

Debates where you try to convince the other person are very different than ones where you try to convince the audience.

They haven't made up there mind yet (at least, almost all of the ones that you'd convince), so they won't feel like they'd be harming innocents.