simplicio comments on A sense of logic - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 14 December 2010 02:41:53PM *  5 points [-]

Except for religionites so young or so isolated as to actually believe that stuff, people are not believers because they fear hell. Rather, they fear hell in order to go on believing.

Comment author: simplicio 16 December 2010 08:44:25AM 2 points [-]

I am not sure these two things are mutually exclusive. The self is not very unitary.