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A friend of mine came to me and said that he cares about his immediate friends, and he cares about humanity in the abstract, but he has trouble caring for most people. They seemed too shallow, too bi…

x Transmute guilt into resolve — LessWrong Replacing Guilt World Optimization Frontpage 12 Transmute guilt into resolve by So8res 1st Nov 2015 Linkpost for mindingourway.com 5 min read 0 12 A friend of mine came to me and said that he cares about his immediate friends, and he cares about humanity in the abstract, but he has trouble caring for most people. They seemed too shallow, too bitter, too spiteful to be worth an effort. He'd been a sixth grade teacher, so I asked, "What about when they were eleven? Were they worth an effort then?" "Yes," he answered adamantly. Or, most could still be sa

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