MugaSofer comments on Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness - Less Wrong
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Unless you own a time machine and come from a future where salmon-people rule the earth, I seriously doubt that. If you're a neurotypical human, then you terminally value not killing people. Mindraping them into doing it themselves continues to violate this preference, unless all you actually care about is people's distress when you kill them, in which case remind me never to drink anything you give me.
Typical mind fallacy?
... are you saying I'm foolish to assume that you value human life? Would you, in fact, object to killing someone if they wouldn't realize? Yes? Congratulations, you're not a psychopath.
Everyone who voluntarily joins the military is a psychopath?
"Neurotypical"... almost as powerful as True!
Seems like a perfectly functional Schelling point to me. Besides, I needed a disclaimer for the possibility that he's actually a psychopath or, indeed, an actual salmon-person (those are still technically "human", I assume.)