simplicio comments on Rationality Quotes September 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 04 September 2012 08:40:20AM *  14 points [-]

Erode irreplaceable institutions related to morality and virtue because of their contingent associations with flawed human groups #lifehacks

--Kate Evans on Twitter

Comment author: simplicio 08 September 2012 01:27:28PM 4 points [-]

I was ready to applaud the wise contrarianism here, but I'm having trouble coming up with actual examples... marriage, maybe?

Comment author: arundelo 08 September 2012 02:58:12PM 4 points [-]

I don't know if this is what she was thinking of but church is what I thought of when I read it.

Comment author: simplicio 08 September 2012 03:20:37PM 3 points [-]

I thought of that too but dismissed it on the grounds that church is hardly "contingently associated" with religion.

But I think you're probably right that that's what she meant... and that being the case it is a pretty good point. I wish I belonged to something vaguely churchlike.

Comment author: Document 09 September 2012 06:41:01PM 0 points [-]

I disagree, but won't present any arguments to avoid derailing or getting involved in a debate.