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Virtue of Silence

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Silence is a hard virtue. All the other virtues have the advantage that, when you practice them, people will praise you. Sometimes if your moral system is very different from your friends’ people will attack you for your virtues, but getting attacked by sufficiently horrible people can sometimes be just as gratifying as praise. But if you stay silent, there’s no praise and no attacks. By definition, no one even knows you made a courageous moral choice.

Scott Alexander, 2013

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The Virtue of Silence

Scott AlexanderJun 14, 2013, 7:00 PM
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4 comments4 min readLW link

Hooray for step­ping out of the limelight

So8resApr 1, 2023, 2:45 AM
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