radical_negative_one comments on Rationality Quotes April 2013 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: radical_negative_one 04 April 2013 04:11:04PM *  9 points [-]

The pirate-specific stuff is a bit extraneous

Jack Sparrow: The only rules that really matter are these: what a [person] can do and what a [person] can't do. For instance, you can accept that [different customs from yours are traditional and commonly accepted in the world] or you can't. But [this thing you dislike] is [an inevitable feature of your human existence], boy, so you'll have to square with that some day ... So, can you [ally with somebody you find distasteful], or can you not?

Comment author: FiftyTwo 24 April 2013 01:26:20PM 0 points [-]

Even more generally it can be taken as a paraphraasing of the Litany of Gendlin

Jack Sparrow: The only rules that really matter are these: what a [person] can do and what a [person] can't do. For instance, you can accept [reality] or you can't. But [reality] is [true whether or not you believe it], boy, so you'll have to square with that some day ... So, can you [accept it], or can you not?