<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 8:33 AM, Anders Sandberg </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
  <div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span class=""><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>Never ascribe to pandering what may be actually held views.<br></div></span></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​<font size="4">Good advice. And never assume that pandering is worse than sincerity. I'd be far less worried about the current crop of US presidential candidates if I thought they were just pandering, but I think they really believe much of the nonsense they're peddling. The sincere fools are the ones that cause devastation, for example I think Bush wanted to believe it so badly that he had convinced himself that there really were WMDs in Iraq.  ​</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"> John K Clark</font></div><font size="4"><br></font></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div> </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br></blockquote></div><br></div></div>