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DanArmak comments on LW/OB Rationality Quotes - August 2009 - Less Wrong
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"There is a courage that goes beyond even an atheist sacrificing their life and their hope of immortality. It is the courage of a theist who goes against what they believe to be the Will of God, choosing eternal damnation and defying even morality in order to rescue a slave, or speak out against hell, or kill a murderer... You don't get a chance to reveal that virtue without making fundamental mistakes about how the universe works, so it is not something to which a rationalist should aspire. But it warms my heart that humans are capable of it."
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky
That's not defying (presumably their) morality, it's defying the local social code.
And while I agree with the quote, it's not rationalist (as it admits), but a great humanist statement.
That's true, isn't it? It's irrational in the extreme to defy a God who's real, will get His way anyway, and will punish you. Shame on you, Huck Finn, you irrational person.