"Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them" by Raemon
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"Annoyingly Principled People, and what befalls them" by Raemon
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- Folk who try to push people to uphold principles (whether established ones or novel ones), are kinda an important bedrock of civilization.
- Also, those people are really annoying and often, like, a little bit crazy
I’ve learned a lot from people who have some kind of hobbyhorse about how society is treating something as okay/fine, when it's not okay/fine. When they first started complaining about it, I’d be like “why is X such a big deal to you?”. Then a few years later I’ve thought about it more and I’m like “okay, yep, yes X is a big deal”.
Some examples of X, including noticing that…
- people are casually saying they will do stuff, and then not doing it.
- someone makes a joke about doing something that's kinda immoral, and everyone laughs, and no one seems to quite be registering “but that was kinda immoral.”
- people in a social group are systematically not saying certain things (say, for political reasons), and this is creating weird blind spots for newcomers to the community and maybe old-timers too.
- someone (or a group) has [...]
First published:
April 13th, 2026
Source:
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xG9Y2Mct7uZyt98yb/annoyingly-principled-people-and-what-befalls-them
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