Risto_Saarelma comments on [POLL] Do You Feel Oppressed? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Risto_Saarelma 03 May 2012 03:38:58PM 9 points [-]

So what is a "local community" exactly? University students? They tend to be pretty much anything-goes in terms of weird ideologies and discussion topics. Workplace communities? Mostly have a tacit agreement not to discuss religion or politics ever. People living near each other? Discussions beyond "nice weather we're having" are pretty rare.

Comment author: thomblake 03 May 2012 04:37:00PM 5 points [-]

I was also confused by this. I don't know what a "local community" would be, or why I would talk to one.

As far as I can tell, in any reasonably large grouping of people, for all speech acts X, there is some person who will react violently to X.