Thomas
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Thomas is a recurring person in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 2 times across 2 issues between July 21, 2025 and July 30, 2025. The archive places it in contexts such as “the court’s three liberals voted with Alito and Thomas”; “So here is my response to all three of the people I said I owed responses to. To Thomas”. It most often appears alongside AAPI Protection League, Aaron, AI Alignment.
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- Category: People
- Mention count: 2
- Issue count: 2
- First seen: July 21, 2025
- Last seen: July 30, 2025
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Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
“Too well. We just wanted to make shoplifting a felony again. But Mayor Lurie signed a law re-establishing execution by drawing-and-quartering. I didn’t expect it to pass an Eighth Amendment challenge, but apparently the court’s three liberals voted with Alito and Thomas and it squeaked through. They say for three whole days the Golden Gate Strait ran red with the blood of the slaughtered.”
Thomas Cotter asks why people think “consistency” is an important moral value. After all, he says, the Nazis and Soviets were “consistent” with their evil beliefs. I’m not so sure of his examples - the Soviets massacred workers striking for better conditions, and the Nazis were so bad at race science that they turned against IQ research after Jews outscored Aryans - but I’m sure if he looked harder he could find some evil person who was superficially consistent with themselves.
Inline links: Thomas Cotter asks
To Thomas: consistency matters because it’s how morality forms in the first place. Everybody has some moral impulses. Those become principles only under the influence of a desire for consistency and for the dignity of a rational being. Hitler was a vegetarian, so he must have had some aversion to cruelty. That plus a dollar will buy you a soda a desire for consistency can prevent you from being history’s greatest villain.