avichapman comments on We prosecute CEOs for failing to do due diligence. But with people, we call it 'faith' - Less Wrong

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Comment author: avichapman 05 July 2012 08:55:12PM 0 points [-]

I don't think you need to be superstitious to commit the fallacy of choosing a belief that is less accurate intentionally. All you need to do is buy into the meme that all belief is good. I know plenty of atheists-by-default who still think that there's nothing odd about intentionally choosing to believe something arbitrary.