MixedNuts comments on Rationality Quotes April 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MixedNuts 04 April 2012 04:30:51PM 1 point [-]

Wait, is there any actual disagreement about what happened? I'm reading older Julian Sanchez posts, but the only point of disagreement seems to be "Once Zimmerman confronted Martin with a gun, did Martin try to disarm him before getting shot?". None of what I've read considers the question relevant; they base their judgements on already known facts such as "someone shot someone else then was let free rather than have a judge decide whether it counted as self-defense".

Comment author: [deleted] 10 April 2012 06:59:26PM 7 points [-]

There is the minor matter of people trying to very hard to spin and misrepresent events. At this point I can't help but link to this very relevant Aurini talk on the subject.

Comment author: CaveJohnson 23 April 2012 10:19:17AM *  6 points [-]

Thank you for the link!

Checking out some of his other videos and links I found this podcast on the topic rather interesting commentary.

Especially the summary of facts starting at the 23 minute mark.

Comment author: wallowinmaya 25 April 2012 11:26:58AM 3 points [-]

Link doesn't work. Here is a new one.

Comment author: CaveJohnson 25 April 2012 12:14:51PM 2 points [-]

Thank you! Fixed the link to match yours.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 April 2012 10:29:00AM *  3 points [-]

Yes I listened to that podcast as well.

I am much more confident that Zimmerman was not the attacker than I was about the innocence of Amanda Knox. His instant demonization and near lynching (people putting out a dead or alive bounty) seems a very troubling development for American society.

Comment author: CharlieSheen 03 May 2012 01:01:16PM *  1 point [-]

His instant demonization and near lynching (people putting out a dead or alive bounty) seems a very troubling development for American society.

More justice for Trayvon I guess.

Comment author: TimS 10 April 2012 12:01:06AM 4 points [-]

There's substantial disagreement about the facts. For example, someone was heard yelling for help, but no one agrees whether that was Zimmerman or Martin.

I can talk about Stand-Your-Ground laws and their apparent effect in this case, but I don't want to drone on.