I’m saying something sort of like 2, but the specific thing I’m saying is the thing you’re asking me not to say, so I’m in something of a double bind.
The creation of an implied “we” who are to unaccountably administer violence to a minority defined by a strong preference for rule-following, and by a comparative lack of affinity for violence outside the apparatus of a legitimate state, whenever this minority wanders out of the specific delineated space “we” have defined for them, is not really a thing it’s necessary to propose in order to address the general question of whether our society’s threshold for censurable violence needs to be higher than it is. The fact that it was proposed is pretty salient to me, and I’m not interested in legitimizing a discourse where asking whether people like me should effectively be confined to a ghetto is within the bounds of acceptable discourse, but indirectly alluding to historical examples where this has worked out pretty poorly for the people thus confined is outside the bounds.
I’m done with this conversation for the time being, and I’m considering whether legitimizing LessWrong at all is a thing I still want to do, given the current direction of moderation.
I’m done with this conversation for the time being, and I’m considering whether legitimizing LessWrong at all is a thing I still want to do, given the current direction of moderation.
Perhaps you and Duncan have found something to agree on ;-)
I’m saying something sort of like 2, but the specific thing I’m saying is the thing you’re asking me not to say, so I’m in something of a double bind.
The creation of an implied “we” who are to unaccountably administer violence to a minority defined by a strong preference for rule-following, and by a comparative lack of affinity for violence outside the apparatus of a legitimate state, whenever this minority wanders out of the specific delineated space “we” have defined for them, is not really a thing it’s necessary to propose in order to address the general question of whether our society’s threshold for censurable violence needs to be higher than it is. The fact that it was proposed is pretty salient to me, and I’m not interested in legitimizing a discourse where asking whether people like me should effectively be confined to a ghetto is within the bounds of acceptable discourse, but indirectly alluding to historical examples where this has worked out pretty poorly for the people thus confined is outside the bounds.
I’m done with this conversation for the time being, and I’m considering whether legitimizing LessWrong at all is a thing I still want to do, given the current direction of moderation.
Perhaps you and Duncan have found something to agree on ;-)