TheRev comments on Avoiding the Study of Being Sincere - Less Wrong

1 Post author: Vaniver 07 January 2011 08:10AM

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Comment author: TheRev 10 January 2011 08:57:20AM *  1 point [-]

amorality is a hallmark of effective revolutionaries

Says who? Sure there are amoral revolutionaries, but some acted in fairly moral ways, and many more at least sincerely believed they were acting in the common good. And even the amoral revolutionaries drape their selfish motives in the language of morality.