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Jiro comments on What level of compassion do you consider normal, expected, mandatory etc. ? - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: Jiro 13 April 2015 02:56:42PM 3 points [-]

Be careful about phrasing this in terms of lying. It doesn't consider the scenario where people really feel pain about such things, and are not lying, yet would not feel pain if they didn't have incentives to do so. Actual movements X often have adherents who behave that way.