Nick_Tarleton comments on Open Thread: April 2010, Part 2 - Less Wrong
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First of all, I recommend clearing away the moral language (value, good, and must) unless you want certain perennial moral controversies to muddy the waters.
Example phrasings of the case you may be trying to make:
I suppose this is true.
If you've ever done a jigsaw puzzle, you can probably think of a counterexample to this.
You've never done a jigsaw puzzle using optimal Bayesian methods.
(Or he just believes you probably haven't!)