While "sexually inappropriate things" is certainly a subset of "inappropriate things", I suspect that if you were to make a list of all inappropriate things ranked in order of severity, the sexual ones would be biased towards the top.
Polite society tends to think sexual misdeeds are a special kind of perfidy, and I also suspect that most…
While "sexually inappropriate things" is certainly a subset of "inappropriate things", I suspect that if you were to make a list of all inappropriate things ranked in order of severity, the sexual ones would be biased towards the top.
Polite society tends to think sexual misdeeds are a special kind of perfidy, and I also suspect that most people, if given the two questions side by side, would think "when should it be legal to say things with an average badness of 3/10" vs. "when should it be legal to say things with an average badness of "6/10"?
Put another way I think Bryan might appreciate, yes, sexual inappropriate comments are a subset of inappropriate comments. But if x = the probability that a particular inappropriate comment crosses the line from boorish and cringe to actively bad, then Pr(x | sexual) is probably going to be higher than Pr(x | any comment).
While "sexually inappropriate things" is certainly a subset of "inappropriate things", I suspect that if you were to make a list of all inappropriate things ranked in order of severity, the sexual ones would be biased towards the top.
Polite society tends to think sexual misdeeds are a special kind of perfidy, and I also suspect that most people, if given the two questions side by side, would think "when should it be legal to say things with an average badness of 3/10" vs. "when should it be legal to say things with an average badness of "6/10"?
Put another way I think Bryan might appreciate, yes, sexual inappropriate comments are a subset of inappropriate comments. But if x = the probability that a particular inappropriate comment crosses the line from boorish and cringe to actively bad, then Pr(x | sexual) is probably going to be higher than Pr(x | any comment).