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Re:How to Be Happy by JamesArgo on Sunday July 20, 2014 @01:53PM (#8060987)
>Or even caring about people's emotions and sense of self, seems to have never occurred to any of them that I have met.

But that's not relevant to a community focusing on rational discussion. And it's the exact opposite of what cults do - they try to shower their followers with love. Not caring too much about people's emotional attachments to their beliefs is appropriate on LessWrong. It is inappropriate outside of that context.

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Re:How to Be Happy by vertex-four on Sunday July 20, 2014 @02:14PM (#8061049)
> It is inappropriate outside of that context.

Yes. The issue is that many seem to have the complete inability to understand this. I don't care what they do in their own IRC channel or community; it's entirely inappropriate to attack somebody without their consent anywhere else, and yet they do.

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