AspiringKnitter comments on New Year's Prediction Thread (2012) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AspiringKnitter 03 January 2012 08:07:52PM *  0 points [-]

While I know nothing about the case,

That's why you think it's unreasonable to accuse them of torture.

I'll consider myself to have guessed wrong if it comes out that they were really never torturing anyone at all to begin with. I will not, however, use a euphemism when what I mean is "torture".

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 07 January 2012 09:43:53PM 1 point [-]

Point was, you didn't make the accusation first, and then predict its continuation.

Comment author: AspiringKnitter 07 January 2012 10:33:42PM 1 point [-]

I didn't think I needed to for the same reason that I didn't think I needed to separately claim that there are OWS protests before predicting their continuation. I thought this wasn't up for debate.