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loup-vaillant comments on The Sword of Good: I need some help to translate it - Less Wrong Discussion

10 Post author: loup-vaillant 30 November 2011 01:41PM

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Comment author: loup-vaillant 01 December 2011 09:18:53AM 0 points [-]

Close, but no : Sorcerers use "Balance" and "Equilibrium" to justify inequalities (filling their own bellies while letting others starve and such).

Comment author: RolfAndreassen 01 December 2011 07:43:37PM 1 point [-]

But they could equally well use the second-order argument of equality: Certainly, I could help this beggar, but is that fair to the one on the next street over, who didn't have the luck that I walked down his patch? Anyway, the word has ironic resonance. But you're the native speaker. :)