Post #3466804
2026-06-29 08:45 UTC
LWer: slavery was bad and abolishing the slave trade was a net good
LW commenters: really?
lesswrong.com/…/surprising-facts-about-the-slave-…
Replies (4)
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@schnoopy@awful.systems 2026-06-29 11:33
Hmmm can we trust a narrative extensively documented in the UK Parliament, courts, and newspapers? Hmmm can we? No I will not look anything up personally.
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@Amoeba_Girl@awful.systems 2026-06-29 13:00
Point 1 is very funny, like, what’s the difference? Randoids are children.
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@Soyweiser@awful.systems 2026-06-29 15:54
At times you need to ask yourself, does the devil need more advocates? And how much does he even pay?
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@maol@awful.systems 2026-06-30 22:22
these kinds of questions are about the potential benefits to some hypothetical version of humanity vs. the real, documented harms to a real group of real people. and of course we already know that rationalists are bad at weighing up the importance of those two things