NancyLebovitz comments on LW Women- Minimizing the Inferential Distance - Less Wrong

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 28 November 2012 07:23:45PM 6 points [-]

I've got some sympathy for people who don't want to shut down organizations merely because they've succeeded.

Stable organizations are hard to create, and people apt to have a lot of valuable social relationships in them.

Ideally, an organization which has achieved a definitive win would find a new goal.

Comment author: JoshuaZ 28 November 2012 07:30:58PM 8 points [-]

Ideally, an organization which has achieved a definitive win would find a new goal.

Yes, but this seems to happen extremely rarely. The only example I'm aware of is how some abolitionist groups helped transition into pro-black rights groups in the post Civil War era.