ETA: what this means is that assuming I wouldn’t arrange for my daughter to wait for me on MLK blvd., that doesn’t mean MLK blvd. is worse than other places unless I would arrange for my daughter to wait for me at those places. So I am criticizing the form of the argument.
Above, Konkvistador at least phrases it properly. My problem with sam0345′s post is that he seems to sacrifice clarity for offensiveness.
This is unlike normal arguments over political correctness, in which all sides agree some tradeoff between positive values of communicating clearly, being correct, not making people feel offended, etc. is appropriate.
My problem with the above post is that it sacrifices accuracy for offensiveness, as if that were a positive value, rather than, say, a worthless thing, which might be the typical extreme anti-PC position.
P(H|e)=P(H)P(e|H)/P(e), P(e|H)/P(e) ~ 1
ETA: what this means is that assuming I wouldn’t arrange for my daughter to wait for me on MLK blvd., that doesn’t mean MLK blvd. is worse than other places unless I would arrange for my daughter to wait for me at those places. So I am criticizing the form of the argument.
Above, Konkvistador at least phrases it properly. My problem with sam0345′s post is that he seems to sacrifice clarity for offensiveness.
This is unlike normal arguments over political correctness, in which all sides agree some tradeoff between positive values of communicating clearly, being correct, not making people feel offended, etc. is appropriate.
My problem with the above post is that it sacrifices accuracy for offensiveness, as if that were a positive value, rather than, say, a worthless thing, which might be the typical extreme anti-PC position.