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Hurling ordure at the TREACLES, especially those closely related to LessWrong.

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rationalist reaches the libertarian conclusion about child marriage (forum.effectivealtruism.org)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by sc_griffith@awful.systems to c/sneerclub@awful.systems

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saw this pointed out here and felt it deserved it's own post

let me mention that this is exactly the sort of argument I've seen pedophilia enthusiasts break out many times:

hmm, we thoughtful inquirers should look at this incredibly tenous evidence I've curated. it raises questions about whether we should be superrrrr chill about sex with children. questions with answers that, I'm sold on!

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[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 1 points 1 year ago

I did 80 hours of study on this, and turns out that the children had only negative QALYs (from now on NQALYs), and the reduction of poor parents surplus children actually increased the total QALYs (and that is not even counting the benefits you get from using the children), therefore in this essay I will...

It is funny, some of them are so afraid of paperclip generators while they don't realize that they themselves can easily be made to believe horrible things if you just back it up with enough stats, papers and contrarian blog posts.