thomblake comments on The Sword of Good - Less Wrong

85 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 03 September 2009 12:53AM

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Comment author: thomblake 04 September 2009 01:43:44PM 2 points [-]

If the Sword of Good tested whether you're good, Hirou would have been vapourized, because he was obviously not good. He was at the very least an accomplice to murderers, a racist, and a killer.

Doing a bad thing does not necessarily make one a bad person. Though it helps.