loup-vaillant 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: loup-vaillant 05 July 2012 10:44:38PM 0 points [-]

Oh crap. I meant it as a factual statement: "It is obvious to nearly everyone". I guess it is less obvious than I thought.

Luckily, in French, we don't have a word as overloaded as "right". We have "true", and we have "good", but we don't have "right".

So let me update my statement a bit: Replacing "right" by "true" won't make the problem entirely go away.

Comment author: fubarobfusco 05 July 2012 11:37:24PM 1 point [-]

So let me update my statement a bit: Replacing "right" by "true" won't make the problem entirely go away.

Sure. For instance, the Scientology folks teach "what is true, is what is true for you" — but they still go around making pretty strong claims that what is true for Tom Cruise et al. is relevant to the rest of the population, too.