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Jack comments on How Greedy Bastards Have Saved More Lives Than Mother Theresa Ever Did - Less Wrong Discussion

14 Post author: waitingforgodel 03 December 2010 06:20AM

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Comment author: Jack 03 December 2010 08:12:39AM 2 points [-]

The idea behind the title is to look interesting enough to read, to a large number of people.

It does do this but it also primes a lot of people (bleeding heart liberals, in particular) to disagree with what you're about to say.

Comment author: waitingforgodel 03 December 2010 10:17:19AM *  1 point [-]

Fair enough. That's what the subhead/lead story was for (assuming the bleeding heart liberals get unprimed by the saving a life for $600 /// lead-in story).

Better headline & subhead solicited, on the condition it has the same draw