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Lumifer comments on If you can see the box, you can open the box - Less Wrong Discussion

49 Post author: ThePrussian 26 February 2015 10:36AM

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Comment author: Lumifer 26 February 2015 04:54:51PM 2 points [-]

Evil, defined as taking pleasure in someone else's unwanted pain, exists

That might be a passable definition for personal evil, but it doesn't look adequate for institutional evil.