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WhyAsk comments on Subjective vs. normative offensiveness - Less Wrong Discussion

2 Post author: casebash 25 September 2015 04:10AM

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Comment author: WhyAsk 26 September 2015 03:39:46PM 2 points [-]

A reasonable person might say that a group being ridiculed deserved that ridicule for a number of reasons, or that the ridiculer is off base. So, two "no answers", two different reasons.

Most people or groups don't "know themselves" so outside information about yourself or the entity that you belong to is almost always valuable.