peterward comments on First(?) Rationalist elected to state government - Less Wrong

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Comment author: peterward 12 November 2014 03:37:29AM 2 points [-]

It also takes no shortage of conceit to imagine one knows better than the majority or people. Lots of individuals flit between business and politics--GHW Bush is a major owner of a gold mine where I'm from.* But an honest person isn't going to go into politics, because they understand the fundamental lie doing so requires.

*'Fact, I'd wager the two are strongly correlated--though I'm not privy to correlation data you are.