Some people do things that they consider not right, unfair or unjust and if they happen to think about it feel guilty briefly then keep doing it.
How do you know this?
It is, as you noted, a truism many people believe in that "almost nobody is a villain in their own mind", and instead people have justifications, special pleading, and other thoughts that excuse them to themselves.
Both this and what you say is compatible with the world as I see it, I have no direct evidence one way or the other. What's yours?
How do you know this?
SWIM told me?
It is, as you noted, a truism many people believe in that "almost nobody is a villain in their own mind", and instead people have justifications, special pleading, and other thoughts that excuse them to themselves.
My spin, of course, is that those people make up stories like that because they are reluctant to admit that other people are less insecure and don't need to make up as many excuses for themselves.
The new thread, discussion 13, is here.
This is a new thread to discuss Eliezer Yudkowsky's Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and anything related to it. With three chapters recently the previous thread has very quickly reached 1000 comments. The latest chapter as of 25th March 2012 is Ch 80.
There is now a site dedicated to the story at hpmor.com, which is now the place to go to find the authors notes and all sorts of other goodies. AdeleneDawner has kept an archive of Author's Notes. (This goes up to the notes for chapter 76, and is now not updating. The authors notes from chapter 77 onwards are on hpmor.com.)
The first 5 discussion threads are on the main page under the harry_potter tag. Threads 6 and on (including this one) are in the discussion section using its separate tag system. Also: one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven.
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