ThePrussian comments on Base your self-esteem on your rationality - Less Wrong

0 Post author: ThePrussian 22 July 2015 08:54AM

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Comment author: ThePrussian 22 July 2015 01:38:45PM 1 point [-]

Could you expand on that? I'm not sure I follow...

Comment author: David_Bolin 23 July 2015 02:29:31AM 1 point [-]

Human beings are not very willing to be rational, and that includes those of us on Less Wrong.

Comment author: ChristianKl 22 July 2015 01:43:41PM 1 point [-]

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.