Title: Don't Negotiate With Terrorist Memeplexes
Date: 2018-01-23 09:30
Category: commentary
-Tags: cathartic, discourse, epistemic horror
+Tags: cathartic, discourse, epistemic horror, game theory
> It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
>  For fear they should succumb and go astray;
I'm certainly not _trying_ to say things that will hurt people—_least_ of all people who are mostly just like me but read different books in a different order and are living out a pretty decent approximation of _my wildest fantasy_.
-But if you try _not_ to say things that will hurt people, [you](https://devinhelton.com/2015/03/23/standing-up-to-offense-bullying/) [end](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/22/ot9-the-thread-pirate-roberts/#comment-160689) [up](http://lesswrong.com/lw/59i/offense_versus_harm_minimization/3y0k) conceding the entire future history of world to people on the basis of their being colonized by mind-viruses that make them the _easiest to hurt_.
+But if you try _not_ to say things that will hurt people, [you](https://devinhelton.com/2015/03/23/standing-up-to-offense-bullying/) [end](http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/11/22/ot9-the-thread-pirate-roberts/#comment-160689) [up](http://lesswrong.com/lw/59i/offense_versus_harm_minimization/3y0k) conceding the entire future history of the world to people on the basis of their being colonized by mind-viruses that make them the _easiest to hurt_.
I don't want to live in that world.