Eugine_Nier comments on Request for input: draft of my "coming out" statement on religious deconversion - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 04 March 2012 06:41:43PM *  3 points [-]

How about this:

  1. She doesn't deconvert. The extended Catholic community preserves the story of how jwhendy became an evil atheist and abandoned his wife and children as a result.
Comment author: jwhendy 04 March 2012 07:20:29PM 0 points [-]

A very possible outcome. What's missing is what I pointed out above in my response to Dallas.

Nonetheless, it still strikes me as a complex situation and I'm not settled on how to judge potential future states and sum the collective happinesses of the stakeholders.

How does one factor in various happinesses, potentially negative views of myself and atheists in general, my childrens' development/emotional/intellectual health, and so on?

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