Need help searching for a quote

Mon, 11 Apr 2011 07:43:11 +1000

Submitted by michaelcurzi • 2 votes • 2 comments

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."

2 comments

LocustBeamGun on Need help searching for a quote

2011-04-11T07:46:15.899854+10:00

It's probably Uncritical Supercriticality.

michaelcurzi on Need help searching for a quote

2011-04-11T07:50:58.222920+10:00

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

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