I wouldn’t think so, but I wasn’t expecting five upvotes on my comment saying so, either. Maybe we really are that pedantic.
This is only incidentally anti-deathist, though; its substance has more to do with popular reactions to controversial ideas. Which doesn’t seem all that shiningly rational to me either, but perhaps I’m missing something.
Or we all secretly love anti-deathist quotes, and only downvote them when they have no rationality content because we feel it’s our duty, but when we see one that can be interpreted as slightly rationalist, we seize the excuse to upvote it. Or our liking for a quote based on its anti-deathism enhances our appreciation for its insight into rationality, via the affect heuristic.
I wouldn’t think so, but I wasn’t expecting five upvotes on my comment saying so, either. Maybe we really are that pedantic.
This is only incidentally anti-deathist, though; its substance has more to do with popular reactions to controversial ideas. Which doesn’t seem all that shiningly rational to me either, but perhaps I’m missing something.
Or we all secretly love anti-deathist quotes, and only downvote them when they have no rationality content because we feel it’s our duty, but when we see one that can be interpreted as slightly rationalist, we seize the excuse to upvote it. Or our liking for a quote based on its anti-deathism enhances our appreciation for its insight into rationality, via the affect heuristic.