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We should envy people that stand firm on their beliefs and are vindicated, not those that may experience backlash in the future because people that had a differ

• scarface_74 3y ago
  How many people will stand by their “beliefs” at the cost of millions of dollars?
  • kbenson 3y ago
    Plenty, but I suspect most of them already have millions of dollars so it's relatively much less of a sacrifice. But for someone who's not a millionaire that looks at the situation and doesn't know how it will shake out, and maybe believes it's 60/40 or 75/25 against what they think is right, it's possible that principle can make up the difference in those assessments and make the difference in what they choose. Just because someone isn't passing up a "sure thing" doesn't mean they aren't sacrificing something, especially when most sure things aren't actually sure at all. In reality it's all a matter of statistical likelihoods (and we either think of them that way, or like most people use a different model of thinking that amounts to the same thing while convincing us it's not), so I don't see this situation as being all that different.