Agreed, but saying a medium-sized violation of truth is a small violation of truth is only a small violation of truth and thus inconsequential.
I wanted to reply thus:
Thank you. Maybe I'm a dark person, but I want to learn to argue like that someday.
But then I contemplated that desire and banished it. So thanks anyway, and an upvote.
(Last month's started a little late, I thought I'd bring it back to its original schedule.)
A monthly thread for posting any interesting rationality-related quotes you've seen recently on the Internet, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages.