Justin_Corwin comments on An African Folktale - Less Wrong

19 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 February 2009 01:00AM

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Comment author: Justin_Corwin 16 February 2009 06:57:10AM 7 points [-]

ugh. Really? Now we're taking a single depressing moralistic story and projecting statements across a population/culture based on it?

Really? And it's characteristic and telling in a way that say, the story of Job or The Toad and the Scorpion, or The Three Little Men in the Wood aren't about Western Nations? Or are we moving backwards from the knowledge that Africa has a "failing" culture?