Screaming is almost never truth-maximimizing. Truths are not comfortable nor un-, they just are true. The fact that many are creeped out by your apparent comfort with certain truths, and they prefer to deny those truths in order to be comfortable, is just one of those truths you’ll need to get comfortable with.
Why is comfort truth-maximizing? From Twelve Virtues:
If the iron approaches your face, and you believe it is cool, and it is hot, the Way opposes your calm. Evaluate your beliefs first and then arrive at your emotions.
If the chair is made of barbed wire, does the Way not oppose my comfort in sitting there? I think Hufflepuff Cynicism more or less agrees that screeming is not truth-maximizing (“If you must scream,” says my inner hufflepuff cynic, “do so exactly once!”), but I’m not sure I agree.
Screaming is almost never truth-maximimizing. Truths are not comfortable nor un-, they just are true. The fact that many are creeped out by your apparent comfort with certain truths, and they prefer to deny those truths in order to be comfortable, is just one of those truths you’ll need to get comfortable with.
Why is comfort truth-maximizing? From Twelve Virtues:
If the chair is made of barbed wire, does the Way not oppose my comfort in sitting there? I think Hufflepuff Cynicism more or less agrees that screeming is not truth-maximizing (“If you must scream,” says my inner hufflepuff cynic, “do so exactly once!”), but I’m not sure I agree.