The individual benefits as an individual from his ability to deny the truth even though society as a whole, of which he is a part, suffers.
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About Garrett Hardin
Garrett Hardin was a 20th-century American ecologist. Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist and microbiologist. He focused his career on the issue of human overpopulation, and is best known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, which called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Truth — Meditations on honesty, authenticity, and the search for truth