A free pass, no. But I don't think that's what was meant. It's that, for someone suffering an accute "attack" of paranoid delusion et al, you can't really bring them back to earth just by telling them they're wrong. You can tell them they're wrong after the fact... but they already know that. So it's kind of pointless, in a consequentialist sense, to correct them.
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A free pass, no. But I don't think that's what was meant. It's that, for someone suffering an accute "attack" of paranoid delusion et al, you can't really bring them back to earth just by telling them they're wrong. You can tell them they're wrong after the fact... but they already know that. So it's kind of pointless, in a consequentialist sense, to correct them.