It seems like the sort of thing that one would accuse another of, in order to score political points by making others feel ashamed to have sympathized with the person so accused. IOW, making the accusation is a much cheaper form of manipulation than actually doing the self-modification — and can be used to undermine many claims that one person is harming another. Thus, we should expect to hear the accusation from people who would like to go on harming others and getting away with it.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see examples of people saying “you don’t really feel bad, you’re faking it” which is a very different thing, and there’s an example of people saying “we mustn’t incentivize these hypothetical Muslims to self-modify in this way”. But can you point me to an example of what you describe happening—of someone saying “you, the actual real person I am replying to, have self-modified to find something more painful in order to change other people’s incentives”?
It seems like the sort of thing that one would accuse another of, in order to score political points by making others feel ashamed to have sympathized with the person so accused. IOW, making the accusation is a much cheaper form of manipulation than actually doing the self-modification — and can be used to undermine many claims that one person is harming another. Thus, we should expect to hear the accusation from people who would like to go on harming others and getting away with it.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see examples of people saying “you don’t really feel bad, you’re faking it” which is a very different thing, and there’s an example of people saying “we mustn’t incentivize these hypothetical Muslims to self-modify in this way”. But can you point me to an example of what you describe happening—of someone saying “you, the actual real person I am replying to, have self-modified to find something more painful in order to change other people’s incentives”?