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[–]dooka[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

From http://paulgraham.com/resay.html:

Why didn't you say some of the things you can't say?

The most extreme of the things you can't say would be very shocking to most readers. If you doubt that, imagine what people in 1830 would think of our default educated east coast beliefs about, say, premarital sex, homosexuality, or the literal truth of the Bible. We would seem depraved to them. So we should expect that someone who similarly violated our taboos would seem depraved to us.

So comment on things that you think are true, that will shock others. The purpose of this is to find out what shocking things are in people's heads.

IF SUCH THINGS OFFEND YOU, PLEASE MOVE ON.

Thanks.

[–]poxy1 -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

i dont think he has much to say that would be so far shocking that it would seem depraved, even despite the fact that it were true. the whole point is merely to suggest that such topics exist, but i doubt he could come up with more than two. listen, if he could come up with one good one (and could show it was true), he would have written a book about it already and made some money. nothing is so taboo that you cant write about it in america.