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

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 02 December 2012 11:10:36AM *  3 points [-]

I'd expect a maximum somewhere in the middle of the range for internally generated complaints.

The countries and regions which are best at human rights get few or no complaints. The countries and regions which are bad but not horrendous get the most complaints. The countries which have a strong pattern of punishing complainers get a few complaints. The most vicious countries get no complaints.

That's just for internally generated complaints. Outsiders may be saying that conditions are very bad in the worst countries.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 02 December 2012 10:04:22PM 5 points [-]

I think your underestimating how many complaints get generated in countries with good human rights that would be considered frivolous by an international standard, e.g., arguing that refusing to subsidize condoms constitutes a "war on women".