ArisKatsaris comments on Open Thread: September 2011 - LessWrong

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Comment author: ArisKatsaris 06 September 2011 08:30:52AM *  1 point [-]

In the ancestral environment, she will in the long term have fewer offspring, since obviously the offspring of freewomen did better, had more assets invested in them, and so forth.

The words "ancestral environment" were nowhere in the definitions and claims about "harm" that were offered previously in the thread.

If you use the "ancestral environment" context to qualify previous claims about what constitutes harm (by arguing that harm are things that tended to reduce reproductive capacity in the ancestral enviroment), then it follows you ought also use the differences between the ancestral environment and the CURRENT environment (or hypothetical future environments) to figure out how our moral intuitions now about what constitutes harm now is different from what promotes or reduces reproductive capacity now.