From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Tue Mar 16 1999 - 16:21:14 MST
Tim Hruby wrote:
>
> Thinking that a moral and poltical debate can be resolved by an item of
> technical knowledge misses a great deal of the richness of human psychology.
Yes, but it's *incorrect* human psychology. I mean, the old debate
about whether the Earth went around the Sun incorporated the same overly
"rich" psychology. I know perfectly well that the abortion debate
represents ancient religious principles, overcompensation for centuries
of hideous injustice, decades of partisanship, rationalization, fuzzy
thinking, refusal to admit error, general hatred, and miscellaneous
bickering. To perdition with it! If it can't be resolved by techical
knowledge, I'm not interested.
--
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