benelliott comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: benelliott 11 April 2011 10:41:24PM 7 points [-]

This may be anti-theist, but I'm not convinced that its a rationality quote. I'm also not convinced that its actually true.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 11 April 2011 11:32:53PM *  1 point [-]

I had the same doubt, but on reflection, I still like it. Many religions seem to have as an explicit primary value: love/obey God - THAT is what good behavior is, i.e. normal human values (especially non/different-believers') are secondary.

Of course it's not likely that the top-10 God-lovers and man-harmers are exactly the same people, but "the most-quoted things are the least-equivocating" :) [self-quotation]