That’s a bit of a non-explanation: it predicts anything, and nothing. How about, instead, you name three specific patterns of craziness (you know, fallacies, errors in judgment, bad heuristics, and so on) that are decisive factors in this state of affairs.
Explaining and rationalizing/justifying are two different things. Pleading the “humanity is insane” is, to put it bluntly, unproductive and lazy. If you want to say “don’t think about it too hard, it’s not worth the effort”, then say that, and spare us the theatrics.
That’s a bit of a non-explanation: it predicts anything, and nothing. How about, instead, you name three specific patterns of craziness (you know, fallacies, errors in judgment, bad heuristics, and so on) that are decisive factors in this state of affairs.
No. The whole point of that phrase is to not get overly complicated in explaining other people’s failures.
Explaining and rationalizing/justifying are two different things. Pleading the “humanity is insane” is, to put it bluntly, unproductive and lazy. If you want to say “don’t think about it too hard, it’s not worth the effort”, then say that, and spare us the theatrics.