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13 Post author: Kaj_Sotala 04 August 2012 10:48AM

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Comment author: Kaj_Sotala 06 August 2012 09:37:42AM 5 points [-]

I will admit that there was definitely an element of what you describe in my motivations, though probably no more than about one third. (Another one third came from genuinely finding the argument interesting, and another one third from a deep-seated general annoyance towards the kind of tribalism in which everyone who thinks differently is dismissed as being stupid, evil, or otherwise unworthy.)