Unless I missed it, this is a claim no one has made.
Let me again quote from Alicorn’s comment:
People who think they are owed something might try to take it.
The comment clearly expresses the fear that someone who says or thinks they are owed more sex from women—and, keep in mind, that could be something along the lines of “I don’t think that women are doing their part in alleviating the suffering I feel as a result of not having access to sex”—may be led to “evil behaviors, up to and including rape”. I think that -- at least in the context of this site—that fear is unfounded, perhaps even slightly on the paranoid side. (Of course I hesitate to say a thing like that, as an anxiety sufferer, throwing stones from my glass house!) In any case I feel reasonably confident in asserting that neither Alicorn nor anyone else stands more than an infinitesimally small chance of being raped by a lonely Less Wrong participant holding the above misguided opinion. Indeed (and to answer some other commenters), I suspect that the proportion of potential rapists among the people who hold that opinion is probably so small that even if all rapes were attributable to the holding of that opinion by the perpetrator, that still wouldn’t justify censoring the opinion itself (and thereby failing to even consider the question of whether lack of access to sex is a legitimate ethical problem worth solving).
but that doesn’t mean popularizing some memes doesn’t have bad consequences. This is fairly basic memetics and how we account for a great deal of behavior.
This is also a larger debate (about whether and how to stop the spread of memes which may have harmful effects) which transcends the specific issues here. It applies even to memes that are definitely good in some contexts, e.g. atheism.
There might also be some positive consequence to spreading such memes but so far no one has argued that claiming loveless men are owed more sex will actually lead to any kind of beneficial change.
Robin Hanson implies this—or at least raises the question—quite regularly. See here for the most recent example.
Let me again quote from Alicorn’s comment:
The comment clearly expresses the fear that someone who says or thinks they are owed more sex from women—and, keep in mind, that could be something along the lines of “I don’t think that women are doing their part in alleviating the suffering I feel as a result of not having access to sex”—may be led to “evil behaviors, up to and including rape”. I think that -- at least in the context of this site—that fear is unfounded, perhaps even slightly on the paranoid side. (Of course I hesitate to say a thing like that, as an anxiety sufferer, throwing stones from my glass house!) In any case I feel reasonably confident in asserting that neither Alicorn nor anyone else stands more than an infinitesimally small chance of being raped by a lonely Less Wrong participant holding the above misguided opinion. Indeed (and to answer some other commenters), I suspect that the proportion of potential rapists among the people who hold that opinion is probably so small that even if all rapes were attributable to the holding of that opinion by the perpetrator, that still wouldn’t justify censoring the opinion itself (and thereby failing to even consider the question of whether lack of access to sex is a legitimate ethical problem worth solving).
This is also a larger debate (about whether and how to stop the spread of memes which may have harmful effects) which transcends the specific issues here. It applies even to memes that are definitely good in some contexts, e.g. atheism.
Robin Hanson implies this—or at least raises the question—quite regularly. See here for the most recent example.