Ignorance of the law may be unavoidable in complex matters, not about "you should not rape".
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Replying to @jonatanpallesen
You would not be able to reinvent every idea that important on your own. It is society’s job to have few enough laws to say that one aloud.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
No matter how few laws a country has, there will always be a large number of different ways to hurt other people. Kick, burn, rape, etc etc.
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Replying to @jonatanpallesen
Humans do have some ability to generalize. The 20 top failures of generalization like “But she’s my wife” could all be listed on one slide.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
... Yes, exactly. So too many laws is not an important problem for this type of crime. (It may be for other types.)
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Replying to @jonatanpallesen
What I’m saying is that all the laws governing them should have been read aloud to them over a couple of days. Too many laws and you can’t.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
But you could read "don't hurt people" and 20 top failures of generalization. Done. (For that type of crime.)
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Replying to @jonatanpallesen
And if that had *actually been done* I’d be, “Sure, lock him up and throw away the key.” But *in fact* our Bronze Age Guy was told “Guess!”
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @jonatanpallesen
Let me be very clear here. This law would not have been hard to teach. It was not taught. Hoping for innate goodness is not an alternative.
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
I take that point. He still has to be punished though. What if he thought it was okay to murder specific people? No one would accept that.
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That’s why the woman not knowing she had a legal right to say no, is key to the story. It demonstrates the ignorance is real, not motivated.
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