[extropy-chat] Fwd: CNN features amazing user with autism

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On 2/26/07, Anne Corwin <sparkle_robot at yahoo.com> wrote:


> Jef said:
>
> "While it's fashionable and considered by some to be the height of
> morality to argue that all preferences are equally valid, it is
> morally indefensible."
>
> I don't think anyone was saying that "all preferences are equally
> valid"...it's a long leap from suggesting that a preference or inclination
> to interact with water is, perhaps, something that ought to be respected to
> suggesting that everything any person might want to do is somehow valid and
> worthy of defense.
>
> If someone has a preference for torturing small animals, it would of
> course be reprehensible to defend this preference as valid.


Thanks, that's what I meant. And an interesting question is, if everyone
could *choose* their preferences, what would they choose? Would anyone
actually decide they want to be a psychopath? Even many psychopaths I have
met admit that life would have been easier if they had been different, but
they are unfortunately stuck with who they are.

Stathis Papaiaonnou
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