wedrifid comments on Well-Kept Gardens Die By Pacifism - Less Wrong

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Comment author: wedrifid 21 October 2011 03:05:49AM 1 point [-]

"authoritarian"

Criticizing for doing a type of thing is misguided.

Often, it depends. ;)

It is legitimate to have preferences (or ethics or morals) that do deprecate all instances of doing a type of thing.

Comment author: lessdazed 21 October 2011 03:21:21AM 2 points [-]

Worse, what I said was logically self-contradictory.

Let's try again:

For almost any type of thing, it is not true that it is always deleterious.

Criticizing a type of thing is useful to the extent you and others are poor at reasoning about and acting on specifics.

Comment author: wedrifid 21 October 2011 03:32:19AM 1 point [-]

Worse, what I said was logically self-contradictory.

Good point.

For almost any type of thing, it is not true that it is always deleterious.

Criticizing a type of thing is useful to the extent you and others are poor at reasoning about and acting on specifics.

That works!