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“Expressing values helps them to signal loyalty to like-minded folks, and a commitment to norms their community holds dear. Discussing compromise, in contrast, risks your seeming a traitor to your allies, and lacking firm value principles.”

That is, unless compromise is one of those norms your community holds dear. Compromise is sometimes seen as a virtue, after all.

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This is more a comment on the referenced posting: It seems to me that the near/far difference (in weighting of values vs. practicality) is due in significant part to: 1) aggressive discounting of future utility ("early to rise" is a great value, but the payoff is long term; whereas hitting that snooze button pays off now), 2) the sheer difficulty of grappling with the complexities of far-mode practical constraints.

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