I don’t see why truth seekers should have any extra difficulty attracting friends. Truth speakers are a different story.
Humans are often blabbermouths—and make poor liars.
Trouble is, it’s very hard to prevent these things from influencing one another.
I don’t see why truth seekers should have any extra difficulty attracting friends. Truth speakers are a different story. Trouble is, it’s very hard to prevent these things from influencing one another.
Then perhaps learning to separate the two should become one of the core skills of the instrumental rationalist.
Actually, I’m being glib here. The core skill I myself would advocate developing would be learning when to separate the two.
I would be interested in reading an article that addressed the “when” question.
Well, I’m not the person to write that article. I don’t even understand why people need to be reminded not to ‘shoot the messenger’. It is because receiving the message is painful? Because the message is not believed?
I don’t see why truth seekers should have any extra difficulty attracting friends. Truth speakers are a different story.
Humans are often blabbermouths—and make poor liars.
Trouble is, it’s very hard to prevent these things from influencing one another.
Then perhaps learning to separate the two should become one of the core skills of the instrumental rationalist.
Actually, I’m being glib here. The core skill I myself would advocate developing would be learning when to separate the two.
I would be interested in reading an article that addressed the “when” question.
Well, I’m not the person to write that article. I don’t even understand why people need to be reminded not to ‘shoot the messenger’. It is because receiving the message is painful? Because the message is not believed?