TheOtherDave comments on I've had it with those dark rumours about our culture rigorously suppressing opinions - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 26 January 2012 04:35:00PM 4 points [-]

Interesting. I haven't given this a lot of thought, but my intuition is the opposite of yours... I think of most social constructs as evolved over time rather than intentionally constructed for a purpose.