gjm comments on The Fable of the Burning Branch - Less Wrong

-19 Post author: EphemeralNight 08 February 2016 03:20PM

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Comment author: Nate646 09 February 2016 12:09:38PM 3 points [-]

I'm interested to know if anyone would have considered voting this up if the attempted rape portion of the metaphor had been omitted and the story had been ended just before then?

Comment author: gjm 09 February 2016 12:47:10PM *  5 points [-]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I thought it was very bad[1] even aside from the attempted-rape bit.

[1] I mean in quality rather than morally, though the attempted-rape part (at least) is horrible morally too.