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