He was trying to make a point about bias undermining rationality, and so was completely sloppy in asking a question that didn’t have an answer determined by rationality.
The point isn’t that the Yes/No answer is determined by rationality but that the nationality shouldn’t matter. Do you think the nationality should matter?
The point isn’t that the Yes/No answer is determined by rationality
So ask a question not determined by rationality, then complain that dispositions other than a will to rationality and ability to execute rationally determine the answer?
I don’t see that as accomplishing the intended end here, or any end, but making the author look extremely intellectually lazy, at best.
Do you think the nationality should matter?
Sure. Government action should be dependent on the nationality of the parties involved, with a particularly relevant distinction between foreign and domestic.
Of course, my answer isn’t determined by rationality, but context, preferences, and a theory of government, among other things.
He was trying to make a point about bias undermining rationality, and so was completely sloppy in asking a question that didn’t have an answer determined by rationality.
The point isn’t that the Yes/No answer is determined by rationality but that the nationality shouldn’t matter. Do you think the nationality should matter?
So ask a question not determined by rationality, then complain that dispositions other than a will to rationality and ability to execute rationally determine the answer?
I don’t see that as accomplishing the intended end here, or any end, but making the author look extremely intellectually lazy, at best.
Sure. Government action should be dependent on the nationality of the parties involved, with a particularly relevant distinction between foreign and domestic.
Of course, my answer isn’t determined by rationality, but context, preferences, and a theory of government, among other things.