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TheAncientGeek comments on "NRx" vs. "Prog" Assumptions: Locating the Sources of Disagreement Between Neoreactionaries and Progressives (Part 1) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 08 September 2014 05:30:17PM 0 points [-]

And not society has ever really practiced 100% for-life monogamy.

Everybody has abundant evidence that the world is an imperfect place, and everything in it, but we still keep coming up with these black-and-white theories.

Comment author: Azathoth123 09 September 2014 12:01:37AM 7 points [-]

And not sic society has ever really practiced 100% for-life monogamy.

But many societies have held 100% for-life monogamy as something you should do.

To put it another way, no society has ever had a murder rate of 0%, but that doesn't mean we should declare murder acceptable.

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 09 September 2014 10:20:58AM 1 point [-]

I was responding to a point about viability.