quintopia comments on True Ending: Sacrificial Fire (7/8) - Less Wrong

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Comment author: quintopia 16 January 2012 12:43:15PM 0 points [-]

How can incomprehensible value systems be represented in story form? With abortive attempts at those who hold them trying to explain them. Like a garuda trying to explain how "theft of choice (of when and with whom to have sex)" is a different crime than "rape" to a human (who doesn't value individual choice in the same way). Or like a superhappy who just knows that we'd absolutely love to be able to Untranslatable 4.