TheOtherDave comments on [study] Ego depletion might disappear with age - Less Wrong

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Comment author: TheOtherDave 27 September 2012 03:03:12PM 1 point [-]

What's a bad person with bad dispositions, if not someone who does bad things?

Well, in practice most of us do make these sorts of judgments. We don't think a bad person stops being a bad person when we imprison them, for example, even if they are thereafter unable to do bad things and therefore don't. Which suggests that we have some notion of a bad person who isn't doing bad things.

This may not be justified, but I'd be very surprised if it were so alien to you that you don't understand it.