pjeby comments on Diseased thinking: dissolving questions about disease - Less Wrong

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Comment author: pjeby 01 June 2010 01:52:23AM 14 points [-]

Telling a lazy person "Get up and do some work, you worthless bum," very well might cure the laziness.

That depends a lot on whether or not the reason they're not working is because they already feel they're worthless... in which case the result isn't likely to be an improvement.