Rationality Quotes April 2012

Oscar_Cunningham

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Do not quote yourself
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What about a "Racist4", someone who assign different moral values to people of different races all other things being equal?

Depends if the differences in assigned moral values are large enough they can easily approach Nazi pretty quickly. As a thought experiment consider how many dolphins would you kill to save a single person?

1Strange714y

That would be a paleo-nazi. Not many of them around, anymore, and those that are don't get away with much.

4Desrtopa14y

Based on a couple interviews I've seen with unabashed Racist3s, I think that they would tend to fulfill that criterion. Edit: Requesting clarification for downvote?