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

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Comment author: DanArmak 09 September 2012 08:06:52AM *  0 points [-]

Yes. And other kinds of hating or loving or hating-of-loving are influenced more by evolution, e.g. the appearance of covert liaisons and jealousy in societies where such covertness is possible. Or the unsurprising fact that humans generally love their children and are protective of them.

I never said no kinds of loving or hating are arbitrary (or at least determined by complex contigent history). I do say that many kinds are not arbitrary.

(My previous comment seems to be incomplete. Some example is missing after "for instance", I probably intended to add one and forgot. This comment provides the example.)