JoshuaZ comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 19, chapter 88-89 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: JoshuaZ 02 July 2013 12:00:43AM 5 points [-]

Or an issue of how most humans are not willing to signal extreme utilitarianism because it is used easily to portray people as cold and hard. Moreover, most humans don't distinguish between "things I say for signaling" and "things I say because I believe them." So there are a lot of reasonable explanations for this without it being mindkilling. Also, some people really are just deontologists. Not being willing to answer such a question makes a lot more sense if one has a deontological rule that rape is always bad and wrong.

Comment author: Qiaochu_Yuan 02 July 2013 12:06:23AM 5 points [-]

There's also the issue that talking about certain things in public in a particular way (and the internet counts as public) causes actual mental harm to people.