ChristianKl comments on Open thread, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 14 October 2015 06:52:45PM 4 points [-]

My aunts resent me for this, but you guessed right: I do not hold the accident of genetic closeness alone as a valid reason for preferential treatment.

That's not the point of the question*. The question is whether anybody who doesn't see things that way is a bigot.

*: Unless of course you define being a bigot as having different preference than you have.

Comment author: polymathwannabe 14 October 2015 07:16:38PM -1 points [-]

In itself, treating your relatives nicely because they're family doesn't seem to sound too bad; it sounds like the obvious and natural thing everybody would do. The problem I have with it is that it means you're intentionally treating everybody else less nicely because they're not family, which to me is a very weak reason to withhold your good will. When taken to the field of real-life decisions, it takes the form of nepotism, which can be seen as bigotry against the entire rest of humanity.