Lumifer comments on Suppose HBD is True - Less Wrong

-12 Post author: OrphanWilde 21 April 2016 01:34PM

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Comment author: gjm 23 April 2016 12:40:25AM -2 points [-]

First: Not "suppressing the truth" but "not expending effort looking into something whose widespread belief would have bad consequences". Second: I said nothing about my own preferences, but about "why there is not much appetite (in most circles) for discussing (etc.)". Third: I do not advocate, neither do I think those opposed to "HBD" generally advocate, telling lies. Fourth: so far as I know, I don't regard anyone as "loathsome peasants"; in my idiolect "peasant" is not an insult, and the racists I know are mostly not peasants either literally or metaphorically.

What you're doing here is taking what I wrote, finding the worst kinda-sorta-semi-defensible interpretation of it you can, and expressing it in ways clearly intended to make me look as bad as possible. Apparently you think that's a reasonable way to treat someone else; to my mind it's an act of hostility as overt as breaking my windows or my nose, though of course much less actually harmful.

Comment author: Lumifer 23 April 2016 01:06:28AM 5 points [-]

I notice you're unusually curt and tetchy.

Comment author: gjm 23 April 2016 11:02:04AM -1 points [-]

"Cet animal est très méchant: Quand on l'attaque, il se défend."

Comment author: Lumifer 23 April 2016 04:16:48PM 2 points [-]

The key word was "unusually".

Comment author: gjm 23 April 2016 04:52:10PM -2 points [-]

And my point is that in this discussion I am being misrepresented and attacked unusually much.

(I also happen to have an unusually strong dislike of the style of debate that proceeds mostly by insinuations, unstated implications and sideswipes, and have had for many years.)