arbimote comments on A Suite of Pragmatic Considerations in Favor of Niceness - Less Wrong

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Comment author: arbimote 18 January 2010 03:00:22AM 7 points [-]

You can have emotions while being rational, and you can be rational while having emotions. They are opposed sometimes, but they do not always have to be. But when there is a conflict between them, rationality (so long as you practice it properly) is more reliable in reaching correct, useful conclusions.