RichardKennaway comments on Rationality Quotes November 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 04 November 2013 03:58:59PM *  1 point [-]

It's more a matter of what evil means. If it is allowed, that's worth a good many points in the evil column of the report card.

It certainly has happened in climates, than which we know of more evil ones, but that case was enabled by the general lack of human regard for the class of people experimented on.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 04 November 2013 04:11:30PM 1 point [-]

It's more a matter of what evil means.

Yes, agreed. I'm not sure I know what "evil" means, but I'm fairly sympathetic to the view that, as the saying goes, good folk can allow evil to thrive by doing nothing.