For clarity’s sake, my point isn’t that people are “bad” if they try to sleep around, but that there can be subtle harms if people do it within a tight-knit community, and that we’d be better if people did it less within EA.
“Subtle harms” sounds like an escalation from “awkwardness or uncomfortability” but if we’re talking about consensual adults acting in good faith I’d say these “subtle harms” are an inescapable consequence of normal social interaction.
For clarity’s sake, my point isn’t that people are “bad” if they try to sleep around, but that there can be subtle harms if people do it within a tight-knit community, and that we’d be better if people did it less within EA.
“Taboo” is also stronger than what I’d want here.
“Subtle harms” sounds like an escalation from “awkwardness or uncomfortability” but if we’re talking about consensual adults acting in good faith I’d say these “subtle harms” are an inescapable consequence of normal social interaction.