When you are winning comprehensively or losing badly, the truth is of low value. It's only the middle that benefits from truth-seeking
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Yeah, but how do you know whether you're in the middle or not?
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hypocrisy. They themselves don't need to actually rely on it, so easy to preach that virtue to others
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I think personal responsibility is orthogonal to truth-orientation
depends on the kind of conservatism I think. Religious, family-values vs purely fiscal

