CytokineStorm comments on The scourge of perverse-mindedness - Less Wrong
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So facts can fester because you only allow yourself to judge them by their truthfulness, even though your actual relation with them is of a nonfactual nature.
One I had problems with: Humans are animals. It's true, isn't it?! But it's only bothering people for its stereotypical subtext. "Humans are like animals: mindless, violent and dirty."
Festering facts?
Ah yes, it's time to dust off YSITTBIDWTCIYSTEIWEWITTAW again. Er, make that ADBOC.
Oops, sorry about that.
Well... that's got a significant element of truth to it too, but I need not be bothered about that either.