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Comment author: NancyLebovitz 07 October 2015 02:41:00PM *  1 point [-]

You may have a point. It turns out that at least one person would like to get in touch with aa, and I'm not sure how that's possible.

What's more (and this sounds like karma) I read something by a man who was involuntarily celibate, and discovered that hormone therapy helped. I'd have sworn I saw this on the most recent SlateStarCodex open thread, and now I can't find it. Meanwhile, it would be exactly like the usual human level of competence to treat a physical problem as though it has an emotional cause.

What deontological rule did you have in mind?

Comment author: skeptical_lurker 08 October 2015 08:36:10AM 4 points [-]

It turns out that at least one person would like to get in touch with aa

Try here: https://www.reddit.com/user/advancedatheist

I looked through his comments for a second, and at least on reddit he's talking about incel stuff in the relationship subreddits and cryonics in the transhuman subreddits.