re: #257 rikzilla

I don’t think paranoid schitzophrenia is the best analogy, but other than that, a good thought experiment. I do disagree that the thoughts that would lead you to burn the rule book are ‘sane’. I mean, I do think that you can sanely decide to burn the rule book, but I think that the thoughts that lead to that point are best characterized by hatred and bigotry, rather than sanity.

This, however, is a very good point:

You have, in fact, by knowing what would happen, forfeited lives in honor of this book that you claim is nothing.

Though again, a slight tweak; some claim that the book isn’t nothing, but that it’s actively evil. To those people, a sacrifice in lives might be acceptable for the destruction of the evil thing. Not that that’s so sane, either.