2. (yes there are issues about taste vs statistical discrimination, let's just assume taste going forward)
1. hmmm. so let's say bigotry is bad and causes lots of misery for no gain, it's some kind of social inefficiency. I basically buy this idea
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3. let me identify a broader category of behavior I'll call "being a dick," which includes all manner of ill-treatment of one's fellows
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4. that unintentionally leads to the acronym BAD. nice. anyway, I am thinking that (bigotry ⊂ BAD). so far so good
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5. it seems like bigotry BAD is more-heavily sanctioned than non-bigotry BAD by orders of magnitude. for example, Steve Jobs: famous asshole
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6. generally revered though. contrast with Brandon Eich. no idea whether he was generally nice, but his prop 8 donation ended him
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7. this seems like an inefficient punishment scheme in light of plausibility that social cost(non-bigotry BAD) >> social cost(bigotry BAD)
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8. so is punishing bigoted behavior vs BAD generally (a) not about social welfare, or (b) just because bigotry easier to see->punish->fix?
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9. or (c) bigotry really is a bigger problem than other BAD maybe
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10. after some reflection it seems like (a) seems likely. going back to the steve jobs case, he was a total asshole; this was known; and
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11. there was no condemnation. someone w/ principled belief in ostracism as mechanism to deter BAD generally would've easily pushed there.
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it's about output, not human interaction. Constitutional prohibition of gay marriage < iPhone (heh, at first typed iPhobe)
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I don't find this convincing, Eich's proportionate harm was ~0 and his contributions huge
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