Multiheaded comments on Welcome to Less Wrong! (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Multiheaded 02 January 2012 08:47:13PM 1 point [-]

Blast me! I meant to say that our culture is an exception, not an "inclusion". So this statement is largely true about non-western cultures, but western ones mostly view the relatively recent concept of "individuality and personhood are sacred" as their main reason against murder.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 02 January 2012 09:16:59PM 1 point [-]

Ah, gotcha. That makes sense.

So is your position that we inherited an aversion to murder from earlier non-western cultures, and then when we sanctified personhood we made that our main reason for our pre-existing aversion?
Or that earlier cultures weren't averse to murder, and our sanctification caused us to develop such an aversion?
Or something else?

Comment author: Multiheaded 02 January 2012 09:53:42PM 0 points [-]

Both, probably. We inherited all of their aversion (being a modest amount), and then we developed the sacredness, which, all on its own, added several times more aversion on top of that.