Sounds like a great rationalization for being a terrible person.
No, you are confused. “You can think of someone you’ve treated badly” fits the same role as “you have built an UFAI/created a real personality cult/been banned from some community for being unpleasant”. That is, the role of clearly undesirable thing that will nevertheless happen with a low probability that can be reduced by more extreme application of some other behavior. Not only does treating people badly remain overtly deprecated, it is the least bad of all the bad things suggested. It doesn’t result in being a terrible person and the ‘rationalization’ business is nonsense.
I was thinking about writing a long, thorough response to this comment, detailing exactly how I perceive it.
That would be a waste of time, so instead I’ll summarize: You are mostly right but not entirely. I therefore retract my downvote in spite of your shitty tone that made it harder for me to update correctly.
If you can’t think of anyone you’ve treated badly, you’re being too much of a pussy.
Or you’re very overconfident of your ethics.
That’s actually a good point.
Sounds like a great rationalization for being a terrible person.
No, you are confused. “You can think of someone you’ve treated badly” fits the same role as “you have built an UFAI/created a real personality cult/been banned from some community for being unpleasant”. That is, the role of clearly undesirable thing that will nevertheless happen with a low probability that can be reduced by more extreme application of some other behavior. Not only does treating people badly remain overtly deprecated, it is the least bad of all the bad things suggested. It doesn’t result in being a terrible person and the ‘rationalization’ business is nonsense.
I was thinking about writing a long, thorough response to this comment, detailing exactly how I perceive it.
That would be a waste of time, so instead I’ll summarize:
You are mostly right but not entirely. I therefore retract my downvote in spite of your shitty tone that made it harder for me to update correctly.