ThisSpaceAvailable comments on Semi-open thread: blackmail - Less Wrong

0 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 15 July 2013 04:25PM

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Comment author: ThisSpaceAvailable 22 July 2013 02:31:18AM 1 point [-]

That's more theft than blackmail. When B refuses to do laundry, B is acting on the intrinsic value of not doing laundry. That's different from the car paint example, since threatening to paint the car green is not based on the intrinsic value of painting the car green.