AlanCrowe comments on The uniquely awful example of theism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: AlanCrowe 11 April 2009 01:01:02PM 22 points [-]

"Modern man is so committed to empirical knowledge, that he sets the standard for evidence higher than either side in his disputes can attain, thus suffering his disputes to be settled by philosophical arguments as to which party must be crushed under the burden of proof."

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 11 April 2009 01:32:48PM 12 points [-]

Thank you, that's the reply I was looking for. We know of a lot of harm caused by marijuana criminalization and very little harm caused by marijuana. Controlled experiments would be very hard to do. In such a state of evidence the sum is unambiguous: revoke the law.