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bogus comments on Where is the line between being a good child and taking care of oneself? - Less Wrong Discussion

11 Post author: jkadlubo 04 December 2014 07:26AM

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Comment author: bogus 06 December 2014 05:03:23AM 1 point [-]

Not quite, since "making friends" requires higher than average trust anyway. Indeed, friendships in low-trust societies can be unusually intimate, relative to what we would naïvely expect. What it does clearly discourage is having a large network of casual acquaintances and loose relationships whom you can expect to successfully cooperate with.