Eugine_Nier comments on Open Thread for February 18-24 2014 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 22 February 2014 01:18:52AM *  5 points [-]

Well, in many ways what this article describes is already the informal policy in many places.

Also, a lot of the bad ideas currently implemented in universities started out as widely mocked editorials and proposals, for example, the currant moral panic about rapists with its ever widening definition of "rape" and "sexual harassment" and its ever shrinking protections for the accused started out as widely mocked proposals.