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ChristianKl comments on How to offend a rationalist (who hasn't thought about it yet): a life lesson - Less Wrong Discussion

9 Post author: mszegedy 06 February 2013 07:22AM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 17 February 2013 09:23:57PM *  0 points [-]

Their conversation was longer than one sentence. If his discussion partner wouldn't have backed up his point in any way, I doubt mszegedy would have felt enough cognitive dissonance to contemplated suicide.

"You should do what I say because I said so.", generally doesn't make people feel cognitive dissonance that's that strong.