Ruairi comments on Why Eat Less Meat? - Less Wrong

48 Post author: peter_hurford 23 July 2013 09:30PM

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Comment author: Ruairi 25 July 2013 09:29:40AM 2 points [-]

"Saying that the coherent extrapolated volition of 19th-century slave owners would have been racist is equivalent to saying that either racism is justified by the facts, or the fundamental norms of rationality latent in 19th-century slave-owner cognition are radically unlike our contemporary fundamental norms of rationality."

Could you elaborate on this please? If you're saying what I think you're saying then I would strongly like to argue against your point.

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