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Konkvistador comments on New censorship: against hypothetical violence against identifiable people - Less Wrong Discussion

22 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 23 December 2012 09:00PM

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Comment author: Plasmon 24 December 2012 03:21:50PM 2 points [-]

If you actually believe that violence might be the right thing to do, then you assign non-negligible probability to

  • the discussion will convince you that violence is indeed the right thing to do
  • you now have moral imperative to do violence, and you will act on this or convince others to act on it
  • you will want the discussion to never have occurred in the first place, because authorities can use it to track you down , and suppress your justified violence

If you want to discuss a coup or something do it in a less easily traceable fashion (not on a public forum. Use encryption. ).

Comment author: [deleted] 24 December 2012 04:38:23PM 9 points [-]

You do realize this argument generalizes to discussing many things beyond violence right? So if this is your true rejection I hope you've spent some time decompartmentalizing on this.

Comment author: [deleted] 25 December 2012 12:22:10AM 5 points [-]

I don't see how to decompartmentalize that, so I'm interested in what you are referring to.