Eugine_Nier comments on LINK: In favor of niceness, community, and civilisation - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 25 February 2014 06:05:36AM *  5 points [-]

Are you arguing that its merely the intensity of the response that makes them mindkilled?

The intensity of the response is what makes them mindkilled. Of course, if the social justice people were actually willing to listen to people who disagreed with them, they might realize that Mestroyer is in fact correct about existential risk being more important that their issues.

Edit: In fact, if they listed to more criticism, they might realize that the net harm from most of their issues is at worst negligible and at best negative, i.e., it is the social justice movement itself that is doing net harm.