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

4 Post author: sunflowers 16 April 2013 11:40PM

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Comment author: ikrase 17 April 2013 06:40:23PM *  6 points [-]

Reading this post and the comments to it, I think that "Fake Bold Iconoclasm" may actually be a more important category than taboo truths.

As to taboo truths, I think that most would be along the lines of futility of discourse, and maybe some as to failures of ethics/meta-ethics, such as possibly 'a huge amount of what we consider absolutely bad and universally traumatizing is actually socially constructed'.

Comment author: MugaSofer 18 April 2013 07:25:26PM 1 point [-]

'a huge amount of what we consider absolutely bad and universally traumatizing is actually socially constructed'.

Ooh, that's a good one.