Alicorn comments on A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness - Less Wrong
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Yep, I thought twice before saying it because I suspected you might say something like that, and I don't like it when people say things like that to me.
And yet you said it anyway! That is laudable.
It can be laudable to run into a burning building to rescue someone, but that doesn't make it OK to set the building on fire. Now that you know that you're protecting yourself from disagreement by being not-nice, will you do it less?