Baruta07 comments on Rationality Quotes January 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Baruta07 15 January 2013 03:06:25AM -2 points [-]

He shook his head. "No, for the purposes of this discussion, Asuka... only I have the power to decide humanity's fate. And I refuse that power to give it back to them. Humanity is made of neither heaven or hell; that with freedom of choice and honor, as though the maker and molder of itself... that they may fashion themselves in whatever form they shall prefer. People, individuals, are not single things but always tip from order to chaos and back again. Those with order are needed for stability. Those who espouse chaos bring change. Only humanity may balance humanity. If a God should be needed, only that nothing from without should threaten that free choice. The maker should be the first servant, just as the mother would care without hesitation for her child

-Shinji & Warhammer Xover.

Comment author: MugaSofer 15 January 2013 10:17:22AM -2 points [-]

How is this a rationality quote?

Also, I haven't read the text in question, but I for one would be very wary about letting Warhammer!humanity "fashion themselves in whatever form they shall prefer."