Deskchair comments on Human Evil and Muddled Thinking - Less Wrong

40 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 13 September 2007 11:43PM

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Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 16 September 2007 10:07:40PM 1 point [-]

Carl Sagan (I think) said we should be open-minded, but not so open that our brains fall out. It's even more important when discussing issues as morally fraught as torture, that we don't open our minds so far that our souls fall out.

Well said.

Comment author: Deskchair 23 May 2012 04:04:16PM 4 points [-]

To me, that sounds a lot like saying "We should be rational, but we should stop before it feels too unintuitive or against social norms".