TheOtherDave comments on Rationality Quotes June 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: kdorian 06 June 2012 02:48:55PM *  0 points [-]

Very few people see their own actions as truly evil.... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

Laurell K. Hamilton

A quote I find useful when considering both rationalizing, and the differences of relative perspective.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 06 June 2012 04:37:33PM 2 points [-]

Huh. Their victims decide, rather than everyone they affect deciding?
I don't think I agree.

Comment author: kdorian 06 June 2012 11:53:53PM *  2 points [-]

I can't see how but that both the victims, and everyone else they affect, deciding. That doesn't mean they'll all come to the same conclusion, of course.

I'm pretty sure that's where politics comes from, personally...

Edited to add: I do not mean to imply that if one group decides X, another Y, and a third Z, that it necessarily means that any of them are wrong.