Michael Vassar has lots of different ideas and is someone who’s willing to share his ideas in a relatively unfiltered way. Some of them are ideas for experiments that could be done.
Without knowing concrete facts of what happened (I only talked to Michael when he was in Berlin):
Let’s say, Michael suggest that doing a certain “psychological technique” might be a valuable experiment. Alice, did the experiment and it had outcome. Michael thinks it had a bad outcome. Alice, however think the outcome is great and continues doing the technique.
If you conclude from that that Michael is bad, because he proposed an experiment that had a bad outcome, you are judging people who are experimenting with the unknown for their love of experimenting with the unknown.
If you want to criticize Michael because he’s to open to experimentation, do that more explicitly because then you need to actually argue the core of the issue. Michael is person who thinks that various Chesterton’s fences are no reason to avoid experimentation.
Michael also is very open about talking to anyone even if the person might be “bad”, so you might also criticize him for speaking with Olivia in the first place instead of kicking Olivia out from he conversations he had.
Given that Ziz was actually a student at CFAR, calling Ziz a CFARian and blaming CFAR for Ziz would make a lot more sense than blaming Michael for Olivia. Jessica suggests that Olivia was also trying to study from Anna Salomon, so probably Olivia was at CFAR at some point, so might also be called a CFARian.
Michael Vassar has lots of different ideas and is someone who’s willing to share his ideas in a relatively unfiltered way. Some of them are ideas for experiments that could be done.
Without knowing concrete facts of what happened (I only talked to Michael when he was in Berlin):
Let’s say, Michael suggest that doing a certain “psychological technique” might be a valuable experiment. Alice, did the experiment and it had outcome. Michael thinks it had a bad outcome. Alice, however think the outcome is great and continues doing the technique.
If you conclude from that that Michael is bad, because he proposed an experiment that had a bad outcome, you are judging people who are experimenting with the unknown for their love of experimenting with the unknown.
If you want to criticize Michael because he’s to open to experimentation, do that more explicitly because then you need to actually argue the core of the issue. Michael is person who thinks that various Chesterton’s fences are no reason to avoid experimentation.
Michael also is very open about talking to anyone even if the person might be “bad”, so you might also criticize him for speaking with Olivia in the first place instead of kicking Olivia out from he conversations he had.
Given that Ziz was actually a student at CFAR, calling Ziz a CFARian and blaming CFAR for Ziz would make a lot more sense than blaming Michael for Olivia. Jessica suggests that Olivia was also trying to study from Anna Salomon, so probably Olivia was at CFAR at some point, so might also be called a CFARian.