Vaniver, your post is eloquent and relevant, yet of course no one gives a shit about that after being downvoted for engaging in a controversial topic in the first place. At that point, all I see is undifferentiated hostility and I’m not going to engage in the cognitive effort to change that view.
It’s not even really your fault. I engaged in a conversation of a controversial, moralistic nature without having any strategic selfish reason to do so. That’s a bad habit if there ever was one. Alas, humans are not always strategic, and sometimes I need the reminder what really matters and what doesn’t.
From that perspective, domestic abuse is irrelevant. The average abuse victim has never done anything for me to deserve my positive reciprocity. I’m not an abuse victim and if I were, I’d simply take personal revenge. Unless of course the abuser is so valuable to my life that I see them as a net-benefit despite the occasional abuse. Hard but not impossible, which was of course my whole point.
Less Wrong and its community has done little for me. You’re not as terrible as EA, and I’ve gained the occasional useful insight here, but you’re still toxic on net, so I’d classify you as minor enemies. Marginally worth harming but no where near the top of my list.
So to sum up, fuck it and good riddance. I actually kind of thank you for the downvotes in this case, this type of negative interaction helps me refocus my perspective and priorities. In fact, I’m now slightly less caring about consent and abuse than I was before this conversation, and that’s probably quite rational for my personal values.
Vaniver, your post is eloquent and relevant, yet of course no one gives a shit about that after being downvoted for engaging in a controversial topic in the first place. At that point, all I see is undifferentiated hostility and I’m not going to engage in the cognitive effort to change that view.
It’s not even really your fault. I engaged in a conversation of a controversial, moralistic nature without having any strategic selfish reason to do so. That’s a bad habit if there ever was one. Alas, humans are not always strategic, and sometimes I need the reminder what really matters and what doesn’t.
From that perspective, domestic abuse is irrelevant. The average abuse victim has never done anything for me to deserve my positive reciprocity. I’m not an abuse victim and if I were, I’d simply take personal revenge. Unless of course the abuser is so valuable to my life that I see them as a net-benefit despite the occasional abuse. Hard but not impossible, which was of course my whole point.
Less Wrong and its community has done little for me. You’re not as terrible as EA, and I’ve gained the occasional useful insight here, but you’re still toxic on net, so I’d classify you as minor enemies. Marginally worth harming but no where near the top of my list.
So to sum up, fuck it and good riddance. I actually kind of thank you for the downvotes in this case, this type of negative interaction helps me refocus my perspective and priorities. In fact, I’m now slightly less caring about consent and abuse than I was before this conversation, and that’s probably quite rational for my personal values.