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TheOtherDave comments on A Rationalist's Account of Objectification? - Less Wrong Discussion

43 Post author: lukeprog 19 March 2011 11:10PM

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 20 March 2011 06:48:40AM 10 points [-]

Really, I think the list overcomplicates matters.

Status is a valuable commodity, so behaving in a way that lowers someone else's status is therefore acting against their interests; non-person objects generally have lower status than people, so treating people as though they were non-person objects is therefore acting against their interests.

Comment author: Raemon 20 March 2011 06:54:58AM *  1 point [-]

Yeah, I think this is pretty accurate.