Tim, do you think that nuclear-disarmament organizations were inherently flawed from the start because their aim was to prevent a catastrophic global nuclear war? Would you hold their claims to a much higher standard than the claims of organizations that looked to help smaller numbers of people here and now?
I recognize that there are relevant differences, but merely pattern-matching an organization’s conclusion about the scope of their problem, without addressing the quality of their intermediate reasoning, isn’t sufficient reason to discount their rationality.
Tim, do you think that nuclear-disarmament organizations were inherently flawed from the start because their aim was to prevent a catastrophic global nuclear war? Would you hold their claims to a much higher standard than the claims of organizations that looked to help smaller numbers of people here and now?
I recognize that there are relevant differences, but merely pattern-matching an organization’s conclusion about the scope of their problem, without addressing the quality of their intermediate reasoning, isn’t sufficient reason to discount their rationality.