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Lumifer comments on Open thread, Oct. 5 - Oct. 11, 2015 - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: bogus 06 October 2015 07:20:48PM 2 points [-]

Well, what should "whatever it takes" mean, exactly? Very few values are anything close to non-negotiable - EY's Sequences are unusually clear on this.

If I had to guess, I'd say that AA thinks "men getting enough sex" could be achieved cheaply enough, by improving male attitudes (and more broadly, societal attitudes) towards masculinity and sex. That would doubtlessly make some radical feminists uncomfortable, but this is clearly the sort of "policy" option that's actually on the table. Which means that even treating your "particulars" as if they could ever be meant seriously is a batshit-crazy misrepresentation of what incels are actually talking about.

Comment author: Lumifer 06 October 2015 07:22:49PM *  4 points [-]

Well, what should "whatever it takes" mean, exactly?

Averting one's eyes means that you never ask yourself that question.

"Make it happen, I don't want to know how" is not a terribly uncommon sentiment.