Viliam_Bur 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: Viliam_Bur 26 December 2012 12:45:44AM 2 points [-]

Suggesting that specific people commit suicide, obviously yes. People in general... maybe no.

I am not going to explain why, but although death of all people technically includes the death of any specific person X.Y., saying "X.Y. should die" sounds worse than saying "all humans should die".