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deleted that tweet that was getting ratio'd, not cause I take it back, but because it was generating a disproportionate amount of yelling at me. I'm planning on writing a much more in-depth and less ratio-able blog post about my reasoning on the topic! But to clarify:

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My goal here is *reducing* the amount of child sexual abuse that happens. We might disagree on how to do this, but our end goal is the same. I do genuinely think that my strategy in the tweet has a good chance of reducing harm! I'm aligned with you on this.

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In my view, incentive structures are really hard, and we can see times where what felt like good intentions (like the war on drugs) fucked up big time (creating cartels). Sometimes things that feel unintuitive are the things that end up having the best outcomes.

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I'm not sure if I agree with your solution, but I trust your intent. Keep on doing what you're doing.

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"the need for an innocent person to suffer/take on the suffering of others so that people can merge and become one bodily and spirit with innocence itself" is not something that can be solved with solely secular technology

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it is kind of funny that a lot of rationalist delvings seem to explicitly gravitate into this topic though; lol

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I think an example would be fake elephant tusks, that actually caused an increase in the demand for actual elephant tusks. Seems pretty similar situation here

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Ooh, I've always wondered how the fake elephant tusks worked out! Got a link to a good source?

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I think you let your sense of compassion do the thinking rather than really facing the real hard solution that would definitely solve the issue.

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Which is?

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The founding myth of modern libertarianism is that the temperance movement and Prohibition created black markets in which net societal alcohol consumption increased relative to the counterfactual.

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Reading these replies, it seems many people feel more positive emotions around punishing pedophiles than they do around protecting children. Your "best outcomes" are quite different from theirs

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In other word, many of these people would experience more pleasure reading the headline, "STREETS LITTERED WITH THE CORPSES OF ALLEGED PEDOPHILES IN MASS LYNCHING," instead of, "RATE OF CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE DROPS TO ZERO IN 2022"

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