If you lower it, you potentially make all the textures blurry, making enemies standing next to a wall easier to spot (no detail to camoflague).
This is the reason why it is considered a cheat. If you have this in your config.cfg, even if its the default (256 or 512), and you re-execute your config.cfg, it kicks you for cheating (or at least it used to anyway).
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