#UnpopularOpinion: Unavoidable ignorance of a law, because your society has too many laws to learn, is a defense.https://twitter.com/primalpoly/status/922139323457200128 …
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky
Notable: wife didn't know she had a legal right to refuse sex, either. Maybe looks controversial when looking at perps, less so re: victims.
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Right. We ordinarily presume that at least the victim knows the law and could tell the attacker so, remedying honest ignorance if that... 1/
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @webdevMason
...were a possibility. If society makes a moral advance and illegalizes slavery or rape, you have to broadcast the fact. A society... 2/
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Replying to @ESYudkowsky @webdevMason
...making so many moral advances that nobody can learn all the new moral ideas about potato pricing, may forget to mention how rape works.
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It's super easy to think that *everyone* *must* have a moral compass calibrated to at least produce an inkling that Wrong Thing is Wrong...
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...and be suspicious of incentives to cry ignorance. But if even the victim doesn't know the laws protecting her, maybe they're not obvious.
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