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Misha comments on Do the people behind the veil of ignorance vote for "specks"? - Less Wrong Discussion

1 Post author: D227 11 November 2011 01:26AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 12 November 2011 03:47:35AM 1 point [-]

The thing is, thought experiments are supposed to illustrate something. Right now, your proposed thought experiment is illustrating "we have trouble articulating our thoughts about rape" which is (1) obvious and (2) does not need most of the machinery in the thought experiment.