Alsadius comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 15, chapter 84 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alsadius 13 April 2012 02:45:05AM 1 point [-]

Hell, would they react differently to disintegration of elves? For that matter, a good percentage of them were okay with mass murder of humans.

Comment author: gwern 13 April 2012 02:50:45AM 5 points [-]

Yes. Elves are valuable and useful - recall Lucius nearly had a stroke when he realized he lost his House Elf. It'd be like casually shooting your stable's prime stallion.

Comment author: Alsadius 13 April 2012 02:58:22AM 1 point [-]

Clearly you don't kill your own elves. You do it to somebody you don't like.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 13 April 2012 05:07:01AM 3 points [-]

They might sue you for destruction of valuable property.

Comment author: DanArmak 13 April 2012 05:02:39PM 3 points [-]

For that matter, a good percentage of humans have been OK with mass murder of humans.

The whole discussion is not very well grounded. Why make a big deal out of kittens but not of chickens etc?