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NancyLebovitz comments on Pro-nice and anti-nice - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 10 October 2010 01:42:16PM 0 points [-]

It's hard to come up with better words, and (aside from "nice" and its opposite possibly not being well-defined for pleasures), the whole cognitive region is so polluted with moralism and status that neutral language may be impossible. I tentatively suggest straightforward and complex pleasures anyway.