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

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

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 07 March 2011 01:27:03PM 0 points [-]

That's a fine use of the principle of charity, and I endorse it on those grounds.

And I certainly agree that in many cases criminalizing (or more harshly prosecuting already-criminal) activity has a worse effect than legalizing it, and that this is absolutely an important argument to make where relevant.