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

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 28 January 2012 09:52:33PM 2 points [-]

My first thought was that people are pushed to take status-raising events more seriously than they naturally would.

Considering that there's some variation in how people react to physical pain, I don't know why that (at least below some threshold) should be off-limits.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 28 January 2012 10:54:57PM 6 points [-]

My first thought was that people are pushed to take status-raising events more seriously than they naturally would.

Taboo "naturally".