“Are your enemies innately evil” is one of my all-time favourite posts too. I now think politics is the single biggest source of rationality failures out there (way bigger than religion).
You can find loads of otherwise really good skeptics out there who have a political view (which is fine) that they seem to think is as perfect, scientific and objective as Maxwell’s equations (not fine). Politics is epistemically dangerous.
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“Are your enemies innately evil” is one of my all-time favourite posts too. I now think politics is the single biggest source of rationality failures out there (way bigger than religion).
You can find loads of otherwise really good skeptics out there who have a political view (which is fine) that they seem to think is as perfect, scientific and objective as Maxwell’s equations (not fine). Politics is epistemically dangerous.