Indeed. For some reason I’m not sure of, I instinctively dislike Chinese people, but I don’t endorse this dislike and try to acting upon it as little as possible (except when seeking romantic partners—I think I do get to decide what criteria to use for that).
Can you expand on the difference you see between acting on your (non-endorsed) preferences in romantic partners, and acting on those preferences in, for example, friends?
I don’t understand how not having any Chinese friends at the moment precludes you from expanding on the differences between acting on your dislike of Chinese people when seeking romantic partners and acting on it in other areas of your life, such as maintaining friendships.
Yes, the commenters on that post mostly don’t agree with him.
That said, I would summarize most of the exchange as: ”Why are we OK with A, but we have a problem with B?” ″Because A is OK and B is wrong!”
Which isn’t quite as illuminating as I might have liked.
I don’t understand how not having any Chinese friends at the moment precludes you from expanding on the differences between acting on your dislike of Chinese people when seeking romantic partners and acting on it in other areas of your life, such as maintaining friendships.
Since I’m not maintaining any friendships with Chinese people, I can’t see what it would even mean for me to act on my dislike of Chinese people in maintaining friendships. As for ‘other areas of my life’, this means that if I attempt to interact with a Chinese-looking beggar the same way I’d behave I’d interact with an European-looking beggar, to read a paper by an author with a Chinese-sounding name the same way I’d read one by an author with (say) a Polish-sounding name, and so on. (I suspect I might have misunderstood your question, though.)
Indeed. For some reason I’m not sure of, I instinctively dislike Chinese people, but I don’t endorse this dislike and try to acting upon it as little as possible (except when seeking romantic partners—I think I do get to decide what criteria to use for that).
Can you expand on the difference you see between acting on your (non-endorsed) preferences in romantic partners, and acting on those preferences in, for example, friends?
As for this specific case, I don’t happen to have any Chinese friend at the moment, so I can’t.
More generally, see some of the comments on this Robin Hanson post: not many of them seem to agree with him.
I don’t understand how not having any Chinese friends at the moment precludes you from expanding on the differences between acting on your dislike of Chinese people when seeking romantic partners and acting on it in other areas of your life, such as maintaining friendships.
Yes, the commenters on that post mostly don’t agree with him.
That said, I would summarize most of the exchange as:
”Why are we OK with A, but we have a problem with B?”
″Because A is OK and B is wrong!”
Which isn’t quite as illuminating as I might have liked.
Since I’m not maintaining any friendships with Chinese people, I can’t see what it would even mean for me to act on my dislike of Chinese people in maintaining friendships. As for ‘other areas of my life’, this means that if I attempt to interact with a Chinese-looking beggar the same way I’d behave I’d interact with an European-looking beggar, to read a paper by an author with a Chinese-sounding name the same way I’d read one by an author with (say) a Polish-sounding name, and so on. (I suspect I might have misunderstood your question, though.)