Dagon comments on Variables in Arguments as a Source of Confusion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Dagon 09 January 2014 06:45:30PM 1 point [-]

The main flaw in both arguments is the implication that "freedom" is a scalar and is terminally valuable to everyone. There's lots of dimensionality to one's ability to choose various options, which prevents a meaningful comparison.

There's no disagreement over what each is allowed to do, the disagreement is over the value to each of those choices. And it's not much disagreement.