No, that’s probably just belief as attire. My point is just that reasonable interpretations of “Suicide bombers are cowardly” allow the statement to be true, even if people don’t mean the true version, or if they came to that conclusion for the wrong reason.
Welcome to Less Wrong! Feel free to introduce yourself on that thread. Don’t hesitate to browse the recommendations from the About page or start in on the Sequences. Kaj_Sotala also posted a first and a second list of favorite posts, which are also quite good.
Your point is a good one—I don’t know if you read The Bottom Line (or Rationalization, the followup), but they make a similar point in a well-phrased way you might enjoy.
Is that what extremist Americans mean when they say cowardly?
No, that’s probably just belief as attire. My point is just that reasonable interpretations of “Suicide bombers are cowardly” allow the statement to be true, even if people don’t mean the true version, or if they came to that conclusion for the wrong reason.
Welcome to Less Wrong! Feel free to introduce yourself on that thread. Don’t hesitate to browse the recommendations from the About page or start in on the Sequences. Kaj_Sotala also posted a first and a second list of favorite posts, which are also quite good.
Your point is a good one—I don’t know if you read The Bottom Line (or Rationalization, the followup), but they make a similar point in a well-phrased way you might enjoy.