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I'm wondering which community Bakkot could give that introduction to and be more welcome. Some people take baby killing more personally.
You're very right. This is a welcoming, friendly and tolerant place. I still hesitate 1/10th as much before posting something to reddit despite it being less friendly. Strange. Does anyone else feel that way? It's like this place has standards, somehow and it would actually be bad if I were junking it up with useless or harmful comments.
I know exactly what you mean, and I think it's one of the best features. Think of all the flamewars that have been prevented by that extra moment of hesitation over the history of LW.
I agree with that, and I've said so before. While this definitely keeps the quality of the site up, and is the reason I find it attractive in the first place, it seems to be that same fact that makes it feel uninviting to newbies.
Because we're communicating in text, and people are saying smart things in few words I used to parse most comments as being very "cool" or dismissive. It took some emails and a face-to-face with Carl Shulman and some gradual absorbtion of the culture before I could figure out how to parse much of the content here as being friendly. I wonder if there's a way to keep the benefits of thinking without losing that immediate "invitingness".
Dude, this is the Internet. There has got to be a community website out there for soi-disant infanticide rights proponents. (And no, I'm not going to search for it at work.)
Because, if it exists there is...
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XKCD.
Ah, I see. Well, that too, but actually even if it were an entirely nonpornographic site laying out the argument in favor of infanticide rights and making emotional appeals to help these poor suffering parents who are prevented by unfair laws from killing their newborn, I am reluctant to put that in my office IP log.
Hell, I'm not even sure I want google to know I searched for it. But I'm fairly sure that's just unreasonable paranoia with a side order of cultural guilt.
I mean, I actually do feel strongly that I should have been allowed to kill my grandfather (rather than watch while he suffered and died slowly and predictably in a hospital), but I'm reluctant to assert that in most contexts.