Thanks. Before that, my only idea was that I was talking about it as political, but talking about bits of evidence.
About the nasty feeling… It’s hard for me to articulate, but the fact is that I had it just before, when my intuition rejected one of the points of view, because it comes from an “anti-rational (and anti-scientific)” source, but could not come up with concrete refutations of what was wrong with this very complex alternative hypothesis. Is this still a bad use of rationality? I’m just not sure that you can’t call “self-righteousness” any use of rationality in relation to politics that does not refute your previous views.
Although I probably should have at least clarified this in the post itself. I am probably a victim of the illusion of transparency, since it does not look clear to an outside observer. I’ll send it to drafts to fix it, and also split it into paragraphs.
Thanks. Before that, my only idea was that I was talking about it as political, but talking about bits of evidence. About the nasty feeling… It’s hard for me to articulate, but the fact is that I had it just before, when my intuition rejected one of the points of view, because it comes from an “anti-rational (and anti-scientific)” source, but could not come up with concrete refutations of what was wrong with this very complex alternative hypothesis. Is this still a bad use of rationality? I’m just not sure that you can’t call “self-righteousness” any use of rationality in relation to politics that does not refute your previous views. Although I probably should have at least clarified this in the post itself. I am probably a victim of the illusion of transparency, since it does not look clear to an outside observer. I’ll send it to drafts to fix it, and also split it into paragraphs.