palladias comments on Jews and Nazis: a version of dust specks vs torture - Less Wrong

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Comment author: palladias 07 September 2012 09:19:40PM 5 points [-]

Right, I thought the point was showing people are viscerally uncomfortable with the result of this line of reasoning and make them decide whether they reject (a) the reasoning (b) the discomfort or (c) the membership of this example in the torture vs specks class