pjeby comments on How to deal with someone in a LessWrong meeting being creepy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 09 September 2012 02:24:08AM 14 points [-]

What do you know about them [creeps, rapists, PUAs] that makes them like apples and oranges in your mind?

I was originally going to argue with wedrifid and say he was being uncharitable in interpreting your statement as considering all three groups to be basically the same: my interpretation was that you meant "some creeps, some rapists, and some PUAs", and your statement could then be read in a meaningful light.

However, this new question suggests that you did in fact mean to lump all three groups of people together as a single category, so I'm now downvoting both comments.

If you can't give me a reason for why they're not comparable in any way, I'm gonna have to give your a kick in the ass for being so dismissive of what another person knows.

Ironically, you are threatening wedrifid with violence for doing something which you yourself are doing, i.e, dismissing others' knowledge as irrelevant. I don't think either the dismissal or the threat are appropriate discourse for LW.