Alicorn comments on Theism, Wednesday, and Not Being Adopted - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Alicorn 27 April 2009 05:22:20PM 0 points [-]

Almost everyone who thinks he or she has higher priorities than being right actually does not have higher priorities than being right, but doesn't place enough priority on being right to see that this is the case.

Can you help me disentangle what you mean by this? There seems to be some equivocation.

Rejecting options out of hand is bad, especially when the alternatives suck.

I rejected that option for ethical reasons. The alternatives do suck, but "carry on believing as always" and "deconvert, then tell an uncomfortable truth" are at least not unethical.

Comment author: steven0461 27 April 2009 06:37:04PM 4 points [-]

For clarification, see my reply to MrHen.

The alternatives do suck, but "carry on believing as always" and "deconvert, then tell an uncomfortable truth" are at least not unethical.

Choosing to believe falsely and then speaking honestly is at least as unethical as choosing to believe truly and then lying. The former amounts to lying and then committing the further ethical crime of believing one's own lies.

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