I never asked him to do jack shit, I have never contacted him of my own volition at all He redacted my name in this post, which I am happy to proudly signal-boost was about me:https://web.archive.org/web/20200202214359/https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/23/in-favor-of-niceness-community-and-civilization/ …
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To use more of Scott and Eliezer's beloved Star Wars references, when Greedo stands there talking about carefully weighing the cost/benefit analysis of taking you to Jabba alive rather than shooting you now, you only keep him talking long enough to draw under the table
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You don't fucking wait for him to decide You don't let him come to some kind of intellectual decision If him attacking you is *anywhere* in his "decision space" you cut that shit off by any method you have to hand, as fast and as hard as you can
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There's definitely a divide between thought and action. Speech IS an action.
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This is the part that the Freeze Peach crowd never gets. Speech has MORAL WEIGHT. We've collectively decided to privilege it, in certain ways, over other action with moral weight, but that doesn't make it "not an action" & it doesn't make absolutism a useful or coherent position!
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lol is Scott a behavioralist and/or solipsist? like, how is saying "I'm going to punch you" while Naziing your arm up that different from pulling your fist back to punch… speech is action.
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