Pretty bad. My trust in the establishment’s ability or willingness to honestly try to inform me about global warming is fairly low as a result. I think that global warming is happening, caused in part by human action, and is going to be somewhat costly, so I’m mildly in favor of measures like a global carbon tax, but I wouldn’t be shocked if some important part of the official narrative turned out to be deeply wrong.
Right, but we are not talking about global warming, we’re are talking about bad faith. Would you say that the sincere we’re-all-gonna-die-unless… environmentalists (and there are a lot of them) are acting in bad faith?
There is no particular need to dig into the details, the point is whether you think of sincere missionaries as different (in the sense of being more or less prone to acting in bad faith) from sincere environmentalists. There’s a lot of heterogeneity all around :-)
I think a lot of environmentalist advocacy is well-described as a bad-faith process executed by people trying to do good, much like a lot of religious education. I’m unsure what the relative extent of each is.
Pretty bad. My trust in the establishment’s ability or willingness to honestly try to inform me about global warming is fairly low as a result. I think that global warming is happening, caused in part by human action, and is going to be somewhat costly, so I’m mildly in favor of measures like a global carbon tax, but I wouldn’t be shocked if some important part of the official narrative turned out to be deeply wrong.
Right, but we are not talking about global warming, we’re are talking about bad faith. Would you say that the sincere we’re-all-gonna-die-unless… environmentalists (and there are a lot of them) are acting in bad faith?
I’d have to know more details about the case you’re thinking of. There’s lots of heterogeneity!
There is no particular need to dig into the details, the point is whether you think of sincere missionaries as different (in the sense of being more or less prone to acting in bad faith) from sincere environmentalists. There’s a lot of heterogeneity all around :-)
I think a lot of environmentalist advocacy is well-described as a bad-faith process executed by people trying to do good, much like a lot of religious education. I’m unsure what the relative extent of each is.
No one is evil in his own story.