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“Sometimes I think humans have a common sense that completely defies logic.”

Humans Reason Logic Stupidity Common Sense Sense Uncommon Sense Rational Debate Defying Logic

Book:The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook

Source: The Eden Fruitarian Guidebook

“When somebody tells us something that would be disturbing or inconvenient for us to believe, we reflexively scrutinize that person for some excuse to discredit him. Their disdain for emotion and dogged, blindered focus on Evidence and the Facts makes it tempting to speculate that people like Ken, rather than simply being more objective than the rest of us - which might threaten to make us feel stupid - just have more deeply buried agendas and are driven by unconscious forces about which they're in even better-defended denial. It's unusually not hard to find such ulterior motives in anyone, especially not in the sorts of people who are most likely to bring us such news.”

Rationalism Self Righteousness Rational Debate

Book:We Learn Nothing

Source: We Learn Nothing

“Quite a lot of what passes itself off as dialogue about our society consists of people trying to justify their own choices (pursuing a creative career instead of making money; breastfeeding over formula; not having children in an overpopulated world) as the only right or natural ones by denouncing others' as selfish and wrong. So it's easy to overlook that it all arises out of insecurity.”

Prejudices Preconceptions Rational Debate

Book:We Learn Nothing

Source: We Learn Nothing

“You'd think that it would make them all the more credible to be free of any obvious agenda or emotional bias, motivated only by objective logic. But there's something off-putting about these hyperrational types; they're immune to any appeals to common sense or humor, the for fuck's sake defense. [...] As Kim Stanley Robinson writes, "An excess of reason is in itself a form of madness".”

Rationality Rational Debate Informed Debate

Book:We Learn Nothing

Source: We Learn Nothing

“He made the rest of us look complacent, lazy, indulgent, and apathetic, in the same way that vegans' conscientious diets can't help but indict carnivores' as callous. The impulse is to write such people off as self-righteous and shrill (which, conveniently, they often are) so that you can stop thinking about slaughterhouses and keep eating scrapple.”

Veganism Rationalism Rational Debate

Book:We Learn Nothing

Source: We Learn Nothing

“It is wrong to say that there was no antisemitism in the Labour Party. But it is also wrong to say that every allegation of antisemitism in the Labour Party was true. Questions about the prevalence of antisemitism in the party remain a dificult, but important and necessary, subject for rational debate. The charge of 'denialism' killed this nuance. It demanded that anyone exercising scepticism be ejected from the political and moral community as anti-Jewish bigots - even when the sceptics in question were themselves Jewish.”

Jewish Antisemitism Labour Party Uk Rational Debate Denialism

Book:The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy

Source: The Fraud: Keir Starmer, Morgan McSweeney, and the Crisis of British Democracy