John_Faben comments on Rationality Quotes 7 - Less Wrong

5 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 25 January 2008 06:00PM

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Comment author: John_Faben 26 January 2008 07:44:05PM 2 points [-]

"Suppose we agree that shoplifting is morally objectionable behavior. Is it true that the only solution to shoplifting is violence or the threat of violence? I don't think so"

Well then you disagree with most of the rest of the world - at least in the UK, we tend to forcibly place shoplifters in prisons - if that's not violence, I don't know what is.