<!-- bryant-content-generator:start --> # The cruelest thing we can do to frightened people... > The cruelest thing we can do to frightened people is flatter every delusion as an equally valid way of knowing. Compassion without reality testing eventually becomes abandonment. **Source:** [[articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]], [[research/AI-Tech Doomers Publication/preimages/2026-09-17-article-route/articles/The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile|The End Is Near — AI Doom, Anti-Science Panic, and the Primates Who Sell Technological Exile]] ## Share on Social Media ``` “The cruelest thing we can do to frightened people is flatter every delusion as an equally valid way of knowing. Compassion without reality testing eventually becomes abandonment.” — Bryant McGill https://bryantmcgill.com/quotes/quotes-cruelest-thing-frightened-eventually-becomes-abandonment ``` <!-- bryant-content-generator:end -->