Oligopsony comments on Don't Get Offended - LessWrong

32 Post author: katydee 07 March 2013 02:11AM

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Comment author: Oligopsony 07 March 2013 05:11:33PM 5 points [-]

... I think this may lead to a theory of acausal insult.

Personally, it's my strategy to insult anyone who could have contributed to my being born, but didn't.

Comment author: khafra 08 March 2013 03:02:26PM 3 points [-]

That's kind of the opposite approach to the one most people take vis-a-vis the set of people who may or may not have copulated with their mother.

Comment author: [deleted] 09 March 2013 11:11:13AM 4 points [-]

If someone other than my father had copulated with my mother sometime in late 1986, a person other than me would have been born.