ChristianKl comments on Human Evil and Muddled Thinking - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 September 2007 11:43PM

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Comment author: Jiro 09 February 2015 06:22:34PM 1 point [-]

I generally don't like "taboo this word" but you could make a good case for tabooing "people" here.

If by "people", DanielC meant "entities which have rights and whose rights deserve to be respected", then of course Hitler thought he wasn't killing people, but that is just vacuously true.

Comment author: ChristianKl 09 February 2015 10:11:59PM 0 points [-]

That assumes that Hitler believed in the principle of respecting rights in the first place. I don't think that's true.