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@RationalMadman
If this is a person Pie respects, it says a lot about him as a person then.
How OCD works is that it is a disease of uncertainty. You check a door lock 100 times, just because you can be uncertain that you checked yet. You remember doing it, but memory is imperfect.
Lots of people don't realize that OCD manifests as more than just uncertainty with whether you washed all the germs off your hands.
It goes to whether you can be certain your convictions are correct. Name any conviction a person should have and I can introduce you to 100 reasons to doubt it.
Never torture a baby for example.
1. What if the baby is the next Hitler
2. What if we are in a simulation and the baby is not real
3. What if living through torture builds character and in the long term is actually psychologically beneficial?
Having uncertainty is not a moral failing. Lacking convictions is merely another way to say lacking certainty.
I think people deserve respect even if they have a disease of uncertainty that makes it hard to have beliefs you are certain about (convictions).
Even the mentally ill deserve respect RM.