thomblake comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: thomblake 16 November 2012 04:12:09PM 2 points [-]

What exactly is "a society at ease with the rich tapestry of human life"?

Am I "at ease" with cultures that have a hobby of cutting small girls' genitalia?

Policy debates should not appear one-sided. There are pluses and minuses to multiculturalism. Other cultures have good and bad aspects, and the default for humans is to reject anything out-group, good or bad. So a shove in the direction of the ridiculous caricature of multiculturalism above would generally be a good thing, on the whole.