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45 Post author: ahartell 22 January 2013 09:15AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 26 January 2013 09:30:29PM *  2 points [-]

You asked elsewhere why this seems to have been down voted. This seems seems easy to explain. People are treating this as death, though we might prefer to tag this as "suspension" and like with all deaths there are sacred feelings. You then proceeded to implicitly violate a taboo of modern sexual sacredness feeling. This was enough for a patter match to your post being offensive.

Some people may just find commenting about the sexual lives of deceased people and your opinions on them distasteful, which is ironically a cached intuition that their current belief system wouldn't generate de novo, though I'm sure it can generate rationalizations for it if it happens to be present. Don't talk about the sex lives of dead people as an extension of not talking about the bodily functions of dead people. In any case this intuition was a minor factor.

The thing is I don't find it offensive at all and even understand your sentiment. Is it really such a horrible thing to say that not wanting to have sex with lots of different people can be a good characteristic by some? But being a communication consequentalist I have to scold you for making the wrong choice if you didn't want to troll. The meaning of a communication is the response it elicits.