Konkvistador comments on Philosophical Landmines - Less Wrong

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Comment author: [deleted] 16 February 2013 06:54:13PM 4 points [-]

This is good personal advice but a bad norm for a community to hold. Can you see why?

Comment author: Larks 16 February 2013 08:40:21PM 2 points [-]

You might be walking around a landmine in order to get to the nuclear bomb. So long as you're defusing something, I think you're ok.

But I agree that we don't want to become too habitual at avoiding such issues.