i’m going to just start RTing people inveighing against the evils of cynicism without comment because a world with more credulous people is advantageous and if you can be made more credulous by that sort of thing then you deserve to be
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my main association with it is when you point out how basic adversarial advantage seeking will make somebody’s do-gooding program worse than useless they call you cynical to shut you up
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Do you see a distinction between observing that apparent altruism is sometimes self-serving, and denying the existence of altruism?
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it's a fairly clear definition: distrust of motives leading to insincerity in all aspects of life, nothing enjoyed for its own qualities but only for the way it points out the failures in something else, nothing taken at face value leading to nothing being valued at all.
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sounds like a real pathological case that doesn’t follow from the basic principle out of any necessity at all
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