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NancyLebovitz comments on Open Thread, June 16-30, 2013 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 29 June 2013 06:30:32PM 1 point [-]

???

Is your assumption that any effort to limit cruelty will necessarily be cruel? Or that SJs in particular are especially untrustworthy? Something else?

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 29 June 2013 09:48:54PM 2 points [-]

My assumption is that SJs are good at finding faults of everyone else, and completely blind to their own. (Which is actually my assumption for all political movements.) I don't consider SJs more untrustworthy that any other group of mindkilled people explaining why they are the good guys and their enemies are the bad guys.

Their amateur psychoanalysis lacks self-reflection. Those other people, they want to dominate, control and punish. That would obviously never happen to us! Now let me explain again why everyone who disagrees with us is evil and must be stopped...