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army1987 comments on What truths are actually taboo? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: [deleted] 17 April 2013 12:26:30PM 3 points [-]

Here's the problem: everything Bill has said is either true, a matter of serious debate, or otherwise a matter of high likelihood and reasonableness. Yet you feel nervous. Perhaps you're upset. That's the power of taboo, right? Society is punishing truth-telling! First they came for the realists... Rationalists, to arms!

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