@SmokingWR3CK4G3@goblinodds Satire is often based on {attribute}-maxxing, but social dynamics often are as well. I guess the latter won this round of maxxing-maxxing.
@goblinodds@ashiningcity@eigenrobot Unfortunately, some seem to have concluded that their deception-maxxing is therefore morally equal to honesty. Maybe even morally better than honesty.
@goblinodds@ashiningcity@eigenrobot cf. "the media very rarely lies"
I think there's a good argument that forcing bad actors to be deceptive rather than open is costly to them, so we should do it.
@goblinodds@cwrichardson@kenthecowboy_ In another sense that makes them opposites. Riffing off another reply: a merely local casus belli vs. a universal[ist] one; Westphalian-type détente vs. rejection of such; limited [culture] war vs. total [culture] war.