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My original comment was actually asking the question: what value to the user does acquiring karma provide? You begged the question by saying that acquiring kar
by wvenable 7y ago
My original comment was actually asking the question: what value to the user does acquiring karma provide?
You begged the question by saying that acquiring karma must provide value because people are acquiring karma. That's the assuming the truth of the conclusion.
I'm not strongly making the claim that acquiring karma is harmful but I'll re-iterate my original question: what is the value of acquiring karma for either the person doing it or the audience? My unsubstantiated feeling is that provides no value but I'd be interested in hearing a counter-argument.
- munk-a 7y agoThe problem is that we have clear proof that people are motivated to acquire karma since... people try to do that thing. You could possibly shift the question over to the topic of "Is being motivated to acquire karma a positive or negative utility - perhaps, does the user acquire karma as a goal, or acquire karma to avoid not acquiring karma for their comments?"