From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Wed Jun 05 2002 - 16:38:37 MDT
Samantha Atkins wrote:
>
> Dossy wrote:
>
> > On 2002.06.05, Anava000@aol.com <Anava000@aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >>Is there a nation or country that the white people have not come to, taken
> >>the best land and resources and abused the indigeneous peoples? [...]
> >>What is wrong with these people?
> >>
> >
> > To the victor go the spoils. There's nothing wrong with "these people"
> > -- there's something wrong with everyone else.
>
> I am shocked and horrified by such an answer.
Me too. I usually don't hold with "me toos", but I'd like it to be clear
what the majority opinion on this mailing list is. "Games" that involve
coercion, theft, rape and murder are not moral, whether they are played well
or poorly, whether they are played on the scale of individuals or of
nations.
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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