MichaelVassar comments on Soulless morality - Less Wrong
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It's not just social dilemmas that can favor "irrational" morality; an imperfect consequentialist agent may do better according to its own values by adopting non-consequentialist ethics. I question that this is actually "irrational", per my interpretation of "rational agents win".
What if I believe that an individual's utility-maximizing level of fanaticism is proportional to their reasoning ability (or something similar), and that my reasoning ability is much higher than average?
Then you keep it to yourself, because the people to whom that applies can figure it out for themselves, and everyone else will just get angry at you.