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Need help searching for a quote

2 Post author: michaelcurzi 10 April 2011 09:43PM

Hey,

I'm trying to find a quote that I recall seeing in the sequences. It was a post by Eliezer, and near the end he made a statement to the effect that 'We don't always know what is right, but you should never physically harm someone in the course of a dispute. Argumentation is an acceptable answer, but killing is not.'

I am writing a paper about that claim, and any help finding the particular quote would be incredibly useful. I suspect that it's somewhere in the 'Politics is a Mind-Killer' sub-sequence, though I haven't found it there yet.

Does anyone know what I'm talking about? Thanks for the help in advance.

-Michael

UPDATE: The quote was found:

"And it is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence.  There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that have no ifs, ands, buts, or escape clauses.  This is one of them.  Bad argument gets counterargument.  Does not get bullet.  Never.  Never ever never for ever."

Comments (2)

Comment author: [deleted] 10 April 2011 09:46:15PM *  6 points [-]
Comment author: michaelcurzi 10 April 2011 09:50:58PM 2 points [-]

Yes. Brilliant - thank you so much. I knew LW would nail this one quickly.