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Daniel
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Another cool trick in this context is considering your rare beliefs Basic Human Decency. Huge shortcut to writing off the humanity of anybody who disagrees with you, making extreme measures easy to justify. Nice!
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Paul Graham
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If you (a) subscribe to an ideology that less than half the people subscribe to and (b) consider anyone who subscribes to it as ipso facto morally superior to anyone who doesn't, then you automatically feel yourself better than average, no matter what you're actually like.
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An emerging style of academic writing/reasoning encourages this. Premise: “throwing acid in an old woman’s eye is wrong.” 17 steps later: “and so it becomes clear that failure to federally fund annual optho visits for all is morally equivalent to a mass casualty acid attack.”
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