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Antisuji comments on Mapping Fun Theory onto the challenges of ethical foie gras - Less Wrong Discussion

34 Post author: HonoreDB 07 December 2011 08:47PM

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Comment author: Antisuji 08 December 2011 07:36:33AM 9 points [-]

People who speak English are (possibly) automatically repulsed by "fat liver". French speakers are not similarly repulsed by "fois gras". The difference has little if anything to do with the practice of force feeding.