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Comment author: Rain 06 October 2012 07:02:36PM 2 points [-]

Eliezer:

Long, long ago, I think at around age nine or something, I was taking a Tae Kwon Do class.

At one point the master said to me, "Attack me."

I gave him a skeptical look.

He said, "Attack me the way you would attack me in real life."

I raised my finger and thumb, pointed it at him, and said "Bang."

He laughed and called up the next student.

However, I bet he's unarmed. It's my estimate that this community is pacifistic and avoids the calculation you mention.