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Viliam_Bur comments on LINK: In favor of niceness, community, and civilisation - Less Wrong Discussion

26 Post author: Solvent 24 February 2014 04:13AM

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 25 February 2014 04:50:21AM *  39 points [-]

A pithy way of summarizing the above comment:

If someone tells you his cause is so important that lying for it is justified, assume he's lying.

Comment author: Viliam_Bur 25 February 2014 01:02:32PM 7 points [-]

If someone tells you his cause is so important that lying for it is justified, assume they're lying.

This wins my personal "rationality quote of the decade" award.