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FAWS 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: FAWS 24 March 2011 08:45:12PM *  -2 points [-]

Nobody has yet provided arguments that women suffer more in e.g. USA.

I'm not interested in that sort of argument. My position is that such arguments are mostly useless, and that you'd do better spending your time fixing whatever injustice is most fixable instead of trying to make the injustice exactly balanced. (As you should know if you read the comment you were replying to)

I made the statement you keep going back to as an aside and because it's obviously true: There are no places where enough men are treated unfairly enough to make up for places like Saudi Arabia (though apparently even Saudi Arabia has been improving somewhat). I don't particularly care whether it's true in particular countries where it's close enough to be non-obvious because I don't think that should guide any decisions in such countries (though I think it's probably true in all but a handful of European countries, and I did give the link on women in parliament which is more evidence than you gave)

I'm not sure why the point about a literal global budget seems so important to you. Promoting equality between Finish men and women would be very far down on the list of things as perfectly rational UNICEF would spend money on, a charity devoted to such would presumably score pretty low on GiveWell compared to other equality causes, and I'd certainly hope a Finish LessWrong group would find a better cause to devote themselves to. Why does it matter to you whether that's stated in the form of a hypothetical global budget or not? The statement was mostly just to point out that Finland is untypical anyway.