Eugine_Nier comments on Counterfactual Coalitions - Less Wrong

15 Post author: Larks 16 February 2012 09:42PM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 17 February 2012 09:54:16PM 6 points [-]

Now, what is hypocritical and is very similar, is that the people who say that abortion is murder aren't out spending time bombing clinics. Whenever a clinic is bombed or a doctor killed, they rush out to say that they don't support it. But if they did actually believe, then they would. However, there may be some degree of scope insensitivity and other cognitive biases at play here rather than simple hypocrisy.

So by that logic where all the pre-civil war abolitionists except John Brown were hypocrites.