2026-01-30
Why I respect Hitler and the Unabomber
Why I grudging respect people like Adolf Hitler and the Unabomber
- they took unpopular moral philosophies seriously
- they were among the first to do so - the closer you are to being the literal first person to take something unpopular seriously - rather than just an early adopter - the harder this is going to be on your psychology
- they took it seriously enough to restructure their entire lives around this
- they pursued rational plans till completion in pursuit of this, instead of painfully flailing around, example: actually taking the idea of living in woods seriously, actually starting a political party, actually getting yourself published in national newspaper
- Their actions were congruent with their words.
- till they died they never wavered and genuinely derived meaning in life from the values they held and the plans they persued. They never regretted their choices.
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