ThePrussian comments on Base your self-esteem on your rationality - Less Wrong
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Could you expand on that? I'm not sure I follow...
Human beings are not very willing to be rational, and that includes those of us on Less Wrong.
If one bases one's self-esteem on one's rationality and one is a human who's frequently doing things that are not rational, being honest about one's state is depressing.