MugaSofer comments on Ritual 2012: A Moment of Darkness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: MugaSofer 25 December 2012 10:32:42PM -1 points [-]

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.

Comment author: shminux 26 December 2012 12:00:34AM *  2 points [-]

Typical mind fallacy?

Comment author: MugaSofer 26 December 2012 01:21:31AM *  -1 points [-]

... 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.

Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 31 December 2012 10:09:06AM 0 points [-]

Everyone who voluntarily joins the military is a psychopath?

Comment author: wedrifid 26 December 2012 07:14:45AM 0 points [-]

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.

"Neurotypical"... almost as powerful as True!

Comment author: MugaSofer 26 December 2012 03:36:49PM *  -1 points [-]

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.)