<!-- 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/AI-Tech Doomerism and Anti-Science Panic|AI-Tech Doomerism, Anti-Science Panic, those 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 -->