Re: IRAQ: Live blog from Iraqi (apparently)

From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sat Mar 22 2003 - 13:12:31 MST

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    Lee Corbin wrote:
    >
    > But surely this cannot be true of everyone, can it? I mean,
    > if you became intimately familiar everything ever done by
    > Ted Bundy, Charles Ng, Adolph Hitler, or Saddam Hussein,
    > surely you would still detest and abhor this individual, no?

    It is not necessary to hate something in order to oppose it. What matters
    it to you if I view Adolf Hitler as a loathsome bug or an abused child, as
    long as I counter his plans?

    I oppose the punishment of non-punishers; it may be an ESS but I don't
    think it's a good thing.

    -- 
    Eliezer S. Yudkowsky                          http://singinst.org/
    Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
    


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