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IlyaShpitser comments on Article on confirmation bias for the Smith Alumnae Quarterly - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: IlyaShpitser 09 August 2014 10:19:04PM 1 point [-]

You can't drink alcohol on a beach in New Jersey (without a permit). Why? Because some idiot was unreasonable once, and someone complained, and now there is a universal quantifier in place.

It's hard to draw lines against scoundrel behavior in a way that avoids undesirable side effects for reasonable people (law is hard because it is a kind of applied analytic philosophy).