Comment by throwaway132448
9 hours ago
You only think I’m hurting myself because you don’t understand what having principles means, and that violating them would hurt more than any monetary penalty. Whether it hurts the other or not is completely irrelevant to my decision. But it makes sense that you think in zero-sum terms, people without principles usually do.
> People are just being rational and pragmatic.
Principled usually means “minimizing harm” which I argue you are not doing.
It can also mean doing crazy things to protect ego or ideology like “I’m going down with my ship”.
It’s starting to sound like is “yeah this isn’t pragmatic but it’s really moral.”
Edit: You edited your comment so mine is now irrelevant.
You seem to think that “pragmatic” and “rational” have universal or objective definitions, which is completely untrue. For example, depending on if you have a short term or long term view of a situation could completely change whether an action is considered rational or not, and vice versa, and has absolute nothing to do with any moral framework.
I dont think enemy centered mindsets are just taking a longer term view. They are psychological traps.
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