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Comment author: [deleted] 05 January 2012 07:45:57PM *  0 points [-]

It would be a pitiful mind indeed that demanded authoritative answers so strongly, that it would forsake all good things to have some authority beyond itself to follow.

Having an authority to follow might actually be that mind's one good thing. Maybe it really likes having such authority beyond itself.

While humans obviously don't consider that their only good this and there is human variation (I don't think everyone values it, I'm only certain at least a few do), it seems pretty clear to me that one of our good things, as in stuff we find worth bothering to acquire, is authority beyond ourselves.

If we find such a hypothetical authority we might feel a strong preference to move in its direction.