Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Rationality Quotes - August 2009 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 06 August 2009 04:04:49AM 7 points [-]

True, it would be some kind of bland comfort if no one had any cause for which they would be willing to kill. It would be an unimaginable horror, though, if no one had a cause for which they were willing to die.

-- Tailsteak

Comment author: Nominull 06 August 2009 06:46:53AM 8 points [-]

Being willing to die for a cause is being willing to kill for a cause, with the caveat that your devotion is so lukewarm that you limit yourself to killing at most one person.

A true superhero would die or kill to save the world, as the situation dictated.