Lumifer comments on False Friends and Tone Policing - Less Wrong

45 Post author: palladias 18 June 2014 06:20PM

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Comment author: palladias 18 June 2014 09:32:44PM 12 points [-]

Working pretty well to date!

Comment author: Lumifer 19 June 2014 03:06:06PM *  9 points [-]

Well, a world where contributing to the campaign for one side of a pretty even referendum (52% vs 48%) is morally equivalent to personally enabling genocide, such a world to me looks very similar to a world where voting against government shutdown is morally equivalent to hanging rich people on the lamp posts and personally shoving their wives and daughters into cattle cars which will take them to gulags.

In either of these words even only a logical and reasonable discussion, never mind a rational one, is pretty much impossible.