One of the least studied rationalist tics is “as far as I can tell, most people who believe X is bad think so because Y reason which nobody has ever brought up, but which I find easy to disregard”
Near as I can tell, the people who think it’s terrible are in large part motivated by largely-false quasi-Mathusian claims related to “overpopulation”.
somehow this person has gone their entire life without ever hearing about the concept of “conesnt”
Y’know I wasn’t expecting to see any award-winning arguments when I clicked the link to see the ‘full’ version of their post, but I’m still a little surprised that literally all the reason they gave was “something something Chesterton’s fence.” That’s just pathetic.
The fucking table really got me, like, what an absolutely mad idiot.
One of the least studied rationalist tics is “as far as I can tell, most people who believe X is bad think so because Y reason which nobody has ever brought up, but which I find easy to disregard”
somehow this person has gone their entire life without ever hearing about the concept of “conesnt”
Y’know I wasn’t expecting to see any award-winning arguments when I clicked the link to see the ‘full’ version of their post, but I’m still a little surprised that literally all the reason they gave was “something something Chesterton’s fence.” That’s just pathetic.