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Comment author: [deleted] 09 February 2013 04:35:46PM *  2 points [-]

Coming here to Less Wrong, I posted a little bit about that, but I was immediately struck in the "sequence rerun" by people talking about what a great utopia the gender-segregated "Failed Utopia 4-2" would be.

Did you use a Rawlsian veil of ignorance when judging it? From a totally selfish point of view, I would very, very, very much rather be myself in this world than myself in that scenario (given that, among plenty of other things, I dislike most people of my gender), but think of, say, starving African children or people with disabilities. I don't know much about what it feels like to be in such dire straits so I'm not confident that I'd rather be a randomly chosen person in Failed Utopia 4-2 than a randomly chosen person in the actual world, but the idea doesn't sound obviously absurd to me.

Comment author: Kawoomba 09 February 2013 05:21:27PM *  0 points [-]

I dislike most people of my gender

Is that ... like ... allowed?

edit: I agree with you and object to all the conditioning against contradicting "sacred" values (sexism = ugh, bad).

Comment author: [deleted] 09 February 2013 05:43:50PM *  1 point [-]

By whom? (Of course, that's not literally true, since the overwhelming majority of all 3.5 billion male humans alive are people I've never met or heard of and so I have little reason to dislike, but...)