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Brian_K_White 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his ...

Pain or fear is not why it's wrong to kill holy cow. I could feed you a drug and you would not feel or fear anything.

reliablereason 4 months ago [–]

I was not talking about the actual feeling in the moment. The point is the valence of the thing. Ie fear of a thing is a pointer to that thing having negative valence.

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