ChristianKl comments on Rationality Quotes February 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: ChristianKl 02 February 2013 04:47:34PM 1 point [-]

If you threaten someone in their survival they are likely to get emotional. That's not the best mental state to apply logic.

Suicide bombers don't suddenly start believing in reason just before they are send out to kill themselves.

Soldiers in trenches who fear for their lives on the other hand do often start to pray. Maybe there are a few atheists in foxholes, but that state seems to promote religiousness.

Comment author: AspiringRationalist 04 February 2013 02:17:13AM 1 point [-]

Soldiers in trenches who fear for their lives on the other hand do often start to pray. Maybe there are a few atheists in foxholes, but that state seems to promote religiousness.

Does it promote religiousness or attract the religious?

Comment author: bbleeker 06 February 2013 11:36:07AM 10 points [-]

I think it just promotes grasping at straws.