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>A sane smart person given the options of: persisting on a trivial truth OR not being sent to a psychiatric ward, must always pick the second one.

> Smart people know what a psychiatric ward is, a sane perso recognizes a serious threat when confronted with one.

Lying is a mortal sin. I try to avoid sin, even if doing so seriously harms me.

Plato said something like: "All sin is a form of mental illness that seems to make one or a few people better off in the short term but makes all humans poorer in the long run."

parent RecycledEle 2 years ago

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