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Dias comments on Cleaning up the "Worst Argument" essay - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Dias 09 September 2012 12:41:54AM 1 point [-]

This argument is relatively clear-cut, but other real world arguments are more complicated.

I agree, but only because you include previously

If your objection to murder is predicated entirely upon the four reasons [emphasis mine]

However, most people would still condemn the silent murder of freindless, depressed homeless people, suggesting that they actully have more subtantial objections to murder. In which case this isn't a clear-cut case of TWAitW.