Multiheaded comments on Wanting to Want - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Multiheaded 22 November 2012 06:28:00AM *  0 points [-]

I only said that in regards to the many photos of staged degradation, multilation, self-harm, etc on the second blog - they're cringe-inducing yet presumably taken in a consensual way (for a loose definition of consent), and thus have a worse "unpleasantness-to-facing-reality" ratio than the textual descriptions of real abuse & its consequences. I quite agree that reading those shocking descriptions is epistemologically and morally imperative.

Comment author: DaFranker 26 November 2012 02:45:34PM 0 points [-]

Good point. If there are written descriptions available, they're a better weighted alternative.