It would be more productive if you gave a rational argument against eugenics. I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but “fuck off” is not a rational argument. LessWrong claims to be a forum for rational discussions. If you don’t have rational arguments against this post, then this is not the right forum for you.
If we can’t get tech advanced enough to become shapeshifters, modify already grown bodies, we don’t get to mess with genes. I will never support tools that let people select children by any characteristic, they would have been used against me and so many of my friends. Wars have been fought over this, and if you try it, they will be again. Abortion should be blind to the child’s attributes.
You haven’t given a single rational justification for anything that you said here. Whereas, I’ve painstakingly every major argument against eugenics under the Sun in the FAQs.
I knew that I was going to get heavily downvoted for making this post, but I also don’t care. The inability of this forum to give rational arguments against my steelman arguments proves that not even most LessWrongers can handle True Rationality.
At LessWrong, rationality stops and emotions take over when the forum-goers encounter taboo and controversial topics.
[edit 7d later: I was too angry here. I think there’s some version of this that can be defended, but it’s not the version I wrote while angry. edit 2mo latet: It’s pretty close, but my policy suggestions need refinement and I need to justify why I think the connection to past eugenics still exists.]
I sure didn’t. I’m surprised you expected to be downvoted. This shit typically gets upvoted here. My comment being angry and nonspecific will likely be in the deep negatives.
That said, I gave an argument sketch. People use this to eliminate people like me and my friends. Got a counter, or is my elevated emotion not worth taking seriously?
It would be more productive if you gave a rational argument against eugenics. I shouldn’t have to tell you this, but “fuck off” is not a rational argument. LessWrong claims to be a forum for rational discussions. If you don’t have rational arguments against this post, then this is not the right forum for you.
You haven’t given a single rational justification for anything that you said here. Whereas, I’ve painstakingly every major argument against eugenics under the Sun in the FAQs.
I knew that I was going to get heavily downvoted for making this post, but I also don’t care. The inability of this forum to give rational arguments against my steelman arguments proves that not even most LessWrongers can handle True Rationality.
At LessWrong, rationality stops and emotions take over when the forum-goers encounter taboo and controversial topics.
[edit 7d later: I was too angry here. I think there’s some version of this that can be defended, but it’s not the version I wrote while angry. edit 2mo latet: It’s pretty close, but my policy suggestions need refinement and I need to justify why I think the connection to past eugenics still exists.]
I sure didn’t. I’m surprised you expected to be downvoted. This shit typically gets upvoted here. My comment being angry and nonspecific will likely be in the deep negatives.That said, I gave an argument sketch. People use this to eliminate people like me and my friends. Got a counter, or is my elevated emotion not worth taking seriously?