ugh yes (and the 'ultimately' is key). i notice people sacrificing personal integrity to avoid short-term risk *all the time* when (imo) they aren't realizing that- a) their actions are more readable than they think and b) integrity is the infinite game and will always pay outhttps://twitter.com/justGLew/status/1095893011630833664 …
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Replying to @rivatez
Serving your ultimate goals with integrity may require to weigh benefits and risk. Risks my have to be taken. But a scientist in Soviet Russia is no use to science if he/she ends in a Gulag. Speaking up is the right thing to do only if we can expect the right consequences, no?
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Replying to @Plinz
but but.. no-one really is playing games on the scientist/gulag level (or at least that level of risk only applies to very few). people act as if they are on that level to justify their non-risk choices (also see these delusions of grandeur vis a vis problems to justify stoicism)
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I am disgusted by people that support evil because of fear. The level in the US is not like in Soviet Russia, but a lot like in Eastern Germany: you may lose job and reputation. Making an alternative career as a dissident is not always a viable path.
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