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Comment author: RichardKennaway 02 November 2010 09:43:19PM 20 points [-]

The fact that I have no remedy for all the sorrows of the world is no reason for my accepting yours. It simply supports the strong probability that yours is a fake.

H.L. Mencken, Minority Report.

Comment author: [deleted] 02 November 2010 11:31:11PM 4 points [-]

I wrote about this.

The idea is: I can criticize a plan that claims wonderful successes, even if I have no corresponding plan of my own. Maybe we don't know how to get wonderful successes at all. Maybe they're impossible. Maybe your reasoning is suspect.