jbeshir comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: jbeshir 24 December 2012 02:51:36AM 3 points [-]

I think in this context, "asking about" might include raising for neutral discussion without drawing moral judgements.

The connection I see between them is that if someone starts neutral discussion about a possible action, actions which would reasonably be classified as advocacy have to be permitted if the discussion is going to progress smoothly. We can't discuss whether some action is good or bad without letting people put forward arguments that it is good.

Comment author: gjm 24 December 2012 03:15:34AM 3 points [-]

There's certainly a connection. I'm not convinced the connection is so intimate that if censoring one is a good idea then so is censoring the other.