TimS comments on Young Cryonicist Gathering Warning - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TimS 12 March 2013 04:58:46PM *  4 points [-]

"It would hurt the program's budget to treat them fairly" could be perfectly rational behavior. You don't know the event organizer's instrumental goals - although there does appear to be some disconnect between the expressed goals and the revealed preferences.

The event organizer's actions might even be legal ("Your contract is garbage," without a lot more context, is not a legal argument).

It's still a jerk move. And I sympathize with the people being hurt by it.

Still, I don't care about Cryonics events. I'm writing only to try and help you calibrate how to write persuasively and informatively.