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Comment author: Lumifer 29 July 2014 04:49:52PM 2 points [-]

most people don't respond to rational ideas and actions, just ideas and actions they believe will benefit themselves or their group.

You are confused between rationality and altruism. These are quite different things.

the question is do most people want the world to be saved?

What does it mean for the world to be "saved"?

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 29 July 2014 06:21:40PM 1 point [-]

You are confused between rationality and altruism. These are quite different things.

At least, he is using rational to mean epistemically rational