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"The most important things about beliefs are whether they are true. The most important thing about motives is whether they are good. But motives don’t tell us whether beliefs are true." ― J. Budziszewski
And beliefs don't tell us whether motives are good.
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Being "nice" is not the same as being "good". Nice people are often some of the worst specimens.
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When a good and true comment is downvoted, it is actually the downvoter who is demoting himself and removing himself from the kingdom of truth, turning instead toward the darkness.
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I will, on occasion, steel-man the positions of others in the comments. I do this, because sometimes their positions are not given a fair shake. I take this to be a good act.
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Let us just say that HN is not exactly the creme-de-la-creme.
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Sometimes what I say is claimed to be obvious. But this is no defect. Indeed, the fault of the interlocutor is that he fails to draw out the implications of the obvious, hence the reminder of the obvious.
