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This sounds like the logic of a bully who beats up on smaller kids so that they'll be "stronger" later.
by DannoHung 14y ago
This sounds like the logic of a bully who beats up on smaller kids so that they'll be "stronger" later.
- gwern 14y agoA bully who carefully doesn't follow the bit about checking consequences. (This reminds me of the old vein of criticisms of consequentalism which go: assume consequentalists are dumb; then they might do thing X with bad consequences...)
- pjscott 14y agoTo elaborate, because a surprising number of people need this spelled out very explicitly: a victim's suffering is a consequence of bullying. If you want to make consequentialist arguments, it's crazy to simply ignore major consequences just because they're intangible.