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Normal_Anomaly comments on [Infographic] A reminder as to how far the rationality waterline can climb (at least, for the US). - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Normal_Anomaly 07 December 2011 10:19:52PM 1 point [-]

and went on to assert that it was morally wrong of me to attempt to inform her.

This is the part that surprises me. What argument(s) did she give that telling her what a counterfactual was is wrong? Was it just something along the lines of "that's a useless fact and you're wasting my time", or did she actually think that it would be immoral to know that at all?