army1987 comments on Can the Chain Still Hold You? - Less Wrong

108 Post author: lukeprog 13 January 2012 01:28AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 13 January 2012 04:54:57PM 1 point [-]

Could the downvoters please explain their decision? I'm genuinely confused why this warrants -4 at the time of writing.

I can speculate that they might think proportional arguments in such cases are obviously correct. If so, could you at least, say, link to an argument? (The controversial nature of the Repugnant Conclusion at least shows that it isn't obvious.) Or is it something else?

Comment author: [deleted] 13 January 2012 06:07:52PM 1 point [-]

The point of that is that slavery used to be something normal, and now it no longer is.