SilasBarta comments on Seeking advice on a moral dilemma - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 10 May 2011 07:39:30PM 0 points [-]

Thanks. You're right, the jerk heuristic is good for quick judgment. It's just that there's a difference between being a jerk when no one will know it's you (this scenario) vs. being a jerk when they will (say, camping the passing lane), and the former are more complicated.

And I love that you italicized pnhfr even though the formating doesn't carry through at rot13.com. I gather you can read/write in rot13?

I just wrote it as I would a normal post, with the asterisks, which do carry through, and then pasted the output here -- this site can then format it since it sees the asterisks.