lessdazed comments on Please do not downvote every comment or post someone has ever made as a retaliation tactic.

[lessdazed]

Imagine a thousand professional philosophers would join lesswrong

Imagine.

EDIT: In response to downvotes, I will explain:

Philip turned to Sparta; he sent them a message, “You are advised to submit without further delay, for if I bring my army into your land, I will destroy your farms, slay your people, and raze your city.” Their laconic reply: “If”. Philip and Alexander would both leave them alone.

[gjm]

It may be of interest that the word “laconic” is exactly the right one. Laconia = Sparta (well, strictly Sparta was just one part of Laconia) and its people were famously terse.

[lessdazed]

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