From: Eliezer Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Dec 26 1996 - 18:13:54 MST
> > Do I qualify? I see the Holocaust as a horrendous tragedy, and if
> > someone smaller than me made a joke about it, I'd punch his lights out.
> There are many things that fill us with intense emotions, both good and
> bad, but the sacred cows are our beliefs about them, not the things in
> themselves. A fundamentalist can believe in God just as much as a liberal
> believer, but he cannot inspect his own beliefs *about* God.
The part about "someone smaller than me" was meant to reflect my
awareness that hatred can lead to bullying.
--
sentience@pobox.com Eliezer S. Yudkowsky
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