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wedrifid comments on Utilitarians probably wasting time on recreation - Less Wrong Discussion

-7 Post author: nebulous 03 January 2012 10:54PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 13 January 2012 04:42:00AM 0 points [-]

What's your goal here? To make them feel better? To avoid seeming like a jerk?

To execute the role of someone with rudimentary social skills and reap the many benefits that go along with that. Sometimes evangelism (or obnoxious invalidation of people's warm-fuzzies) just isn't the most useful action in a given circumstance.

"Wedrifid" is somewhat more forthright than I in this regard.