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a reactionary position to increasingly support inaction in the face of incomplete knowledge as the path of moral high-groun. While some may believe this strategy to be 'correct', it leaves bad-faith actors to make the big moves while the purists hole up, finding themselves besieged and confined to ivory towers.
… is one of the most important thoughts to be dangled before me in a long time.
I think it relates to my fears about the Trump/Biden debates. How do you debate a person who is willing to confidently lie? A debate cannot go forward in the absence of any concept of truth. So, I think Biden should either refuse to debate or pick a fight with trump on the first whopper he tells, bury him in facts, refuse to talk about anything else until the lie is revealed, and walk calmly off the stage if that conversation be carried to its end.
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Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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Please excuse the Cassandrafreude, but here we are nearly 7 months later and we now have the app, it is called the U.S Postal Service. Will the app manage to escape any of Dave's points of critique? It is beginning to occur to me that manifesting beside the rise of bad-faith science (bogus climate studies supporting denial, bogus pharmaceutical trials, and the like) comes a reactionary position to increasingly support inaction as the path of moral high-ground, in the face of incomplete knowledge. While some may believe this strategy to be 'correct', it leaves bad-faith actors to make the big moves while the purists hole up, finding themselves besieged and confined to ivory towers. What remains of the republic is at risk and not just at the hands of those that seek to dismantle it, but also by those too paralyzed by the righteousness of certainty to protect it. Somehow, I would have much preferred to find myself complaining in November about the failures of a first-gen voting app than whining about losing another of our critical institutions as we cower in the post-democratic apocalypse.
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