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Pavitra comments on Blues, Greens and abortion - Less Wrong Discussion

6 Post author: Snowyowl 05 March 2011 07:15PM

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Comment author: Pavitra 07 March 2011 03:55:53AM 0 points [-]

it is clearly inconsistent with your earlier statements about selective abortion

Ouch, truth.

On the other hand, there's a difference between discriminating and discriminatory, indiscriminate and nondiscriminatory. (No less ambiguous terms immediately occur to me, and I was not strict with this usage in the grandparent.) I don't particularly object to discriminating against serial killers, for example.

But the perverse-incentive argument holds in full force. Perhaps I should edit the grandparent so people don't keep trying to re-dissuade me of something I've already disclaimed?