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

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Comment author: polymathwannabe 14 October 2015 06:33:09PM -1 points [-]

My aunts resent me for this, but you guessed right: I do not hold the accident of genetic closeness alone as a valid reason for preferential treatment. To quote Gabriel García Márquez,

one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Comment author: Jiro 15 October 2015 03:17:55PM 2 points [-]

How is that even relevant? I don't see anything about genetic closeness up there. I do see a reference to family, which is not the same thing and can easily include people with "friendship formed".