We've given the keys to the kingdom to gleeful McCarthy hobbyists, the same sort of people who would've taken their children to the guillotines or the gallows for some leisure. What good fortune to live now, when they can spit lies to anyone's friends or employer from the couchhttps://twitter.com/ESYudkowsky/status/1099136663471644672 …
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Misinterpretation re: the kids; I'm noting that public executions as a community spectacle = exactly the kind of banal evil that tends to manifest when fear/outrage overwhelms pro-social tendencies & viciousness becomes virtue. This isn't about philosophies, this about sadism.
If you're the sort of person who'll call up a stranger's boss and explicitly lie in an attempt to sink their career... I have no trouble imagining that you'd watch another ("bad") man's head literally roll under social conditions that put that inside the moral Overton window
