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Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Is Spirituality Irrational? - Less Wrong

5 Post author: lisper 09 February 2016 01:42AM

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 27 February 2016 04:28:44PM 0 points [-]

If Jewishness is inherited from one's mother,

Or you can convert into it.

and a person's great^200-grandmother was more like a chimpanzee than a modern human

I think you need at least a couple more zeroes in there for that to be right.

then on what basis is it reasonable to call that person Jewish?

They or one of their matrilinear ancestors converted to Judaism?

Comment author: gjm 27 February 2016 11:12:55PM 0 points [-]

you need at least a couple more zeroes

Oooops! I meant there to be three more. Will fix. Thanks.

Comment author: gjm 27 February 2016 11:14:18PM -1 points [-]

They or one of their matrilinear ancestors converted to Judaism?

In case it wasn't clear: I was not posing "on what basis ..." as a challenge, I was pointing out that it isn't much of a challenge and that for similar reasons lisper's parallel question about free will is not much of a challenge either.