Well, I don’t think it’s obviously objectionable, and I’d have trouble putting my finger on the exact criterion for objectionability we should be using here. Something like “we’d all be better off in the presence of a norm against encouraging people to think in ways that might be valid in the particular case where we’re talking to them but whose appeal comes from emotional predispositions that we sought out in them that aren’t generally either truth-tracking or good for them” seems plausible to me. But I think it’s obviously not as obviously unobjectionable as Zack seemed to be suggesting in his last few sentences, which was what moved me to comment.
Well, I don’t think it’s obviously objectionable, and I’d have trouble putting my finger on the exact criterion for objectionability we should be using here. Something like “we’d all be better off in the presence of a norm against encouraging people to think in ways that might be valid in the particular case where we’re talking to them but whose appeal comes from emotional predispositions that we sought out in them that aren’t generally either truth-tracking or good for them” seems plausible to me. But I think it’s obviously not as obviously unobjectionable as Zack seemed to be suggesting in his last few sentences, which was what moved me to comment.