Coming here to Less Wrong, I posted a little bit about that, but I was immediately struck in the “sequence rerun” by people talking about what a great utopia the gender-segregated “Failed Utopia 4-2″ would be.
Did you use a Rawlsian veil of ignorance when judging it? From a totally selfish point of view, I would very, very, very much rather be myself in this world than myself in that scenario (given that, among plenty of other things, I dislike most people of my gender), but think of, say, starving African children or people with disabilities. I don’t know much about what it feels like to be in such dire straits so I’m not confident that I’d rather be a randomly chosen person in Failed Utopia 4-2 than a randomly chosen person in the actual world, but the idea doesn’t sound obviously absurd to me.
By whom? (Of course, that’s not literally true, since the overwhelming majority of all 3.5 billion male humans alive are people I’ve never met or heard of and so I have little reason to dislike, but...)
Did you use a Rawlsian veil of ignorance when judging it? From a totally selfish point of view, I would very, very, very much rather be myself in this world than myself in that scenario (given that, among plenty of other things, I dislike most people of my gender), but think of, say, starving African children or people with disabilities. I don’t know much about what it feels like to be in such dire straits so I’m not confident that I’d rather be a randomly chosen person in Failed Utopia 4-2 than a randomly chosen person in the actual world, but the idea doesn’t sound obviously absurd to me.
Is that … like … allowed?
edit: I agree with you and object to all the conditioning against contradicting “sacred” values (sexism = ugh, bad).
By whom? (Of course, that’s not literally true, since the overwhelming majority of all 3.5 billion male humans alive are people I’ve never met or heard of and so I have little reason to dislike, but...)