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It's not a "veiled swipe" at all. I'm pretty explicitly stating that I consider racism to be extrinsically bad - I only care when it causes intrinsically bad ac
by yummyfajitas 11y ago
It's not a "veiled swipe" at all. I'm pretty explicitly stating that I consider racism to be extrinsically bad - I only care when it causes intrinsically bad actions like protectionism, and that protectionist acts which are non-racist are also bad.
I get the impression you have a different moral conclusion, but I have no idea how you reach it in a logically consistent manner. I take it you refuse to state your principles?
- tptacek 11y agoI am not required to provide you with a first-principles reasoning for why racism is bad. I get the impression that you'd like that requirement to be the norm here, but it is not. There's not much of a reason to let this subthread get any deeper, is there?
- yummyfajitas 11y agoClearly no one is required to do anything. I merely interpreted your repeated replies to me as an attempt to engage in intellectual discussion, and I was attempting to participate. That's normally what one does on HN. Perhaps I misinterpreted and you were merely replying in an attempt to raise your status at my expense? If so, my apologies, and I accept your victory. You are a high status, mainstream person with values within the Overton window. I'm a weird nerd who follows his reasoning to wrongthink. Congrats!
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- YuriNiyazov 11y ago"You are a high status, mainstream person with values within the Overton window." - that is a very strange thing to accuse tptacek of.