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Good_Burning_Plastic comments on Rational approach to finding life partners - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Good_Burning_Plastic 11 September 2015 08:08:30AM *  -1 points [-]

(in those words)

Yeah, even statements with uncontroversial factual accuracy can be offensive when worded in a sufficiently disingenuous way. That's a quite general phenomenon, with hardly anything specific to your example. So what's your point?

Comment author: Jiro 11 September 2015 03:57:29PM *  2 points [-]

But it isn't worded in a "sufficiently disingenuous way", it's worded in a way similar to Lumifer's sex statement. If it isn't acceptable because of the offensive wording, why is the sex statement acceptable?