J_Taylor comments on Rationality Quotes May 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: J_Taylor 03 May 2012 06:16:35PM 11 points [-]

It is not seeing things as they are to think first of a Briareus with a hundred hands, and then call every man a cripple for only having two. It is not seeing things as they are to start with a vision of Argus with his hundred eyes, and then jeer at every man with two eyes as if he had only one. And it is not seeing things as they are to imagine a demigod of infinite mental clarity, who may or may not appear in the latter days of the earth, and then to see all men as idiots.

-G.K. Chesterton

Comment author: thomblake 03 May 2012 06:39:43PM 3 points [-]

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Comment author: khafra 07 May 2012 03:19:01PM 1 point [-]

Of course, if you can compute the way an Argus would see an obscured object, or a Briareus would approach a dexterity-testing-task, that might be useful in evaluating our approaches to similar problems.

Comment author: hairyfigment 04 May 2012 07:03:39PM 1 point [-]

This struck me as an odd position for a Christian apologist. I know that if I didn't see us all as idiots, I might think we all deserved to die -- oh, wait.

Comment author: smijer 05 May 2012 06:18:47PM 0 points [-]

I'm not sure Chesterson deserves the epithet of apologist. Christian yes... evangelist, of a sort. I see him as a cut above the apologist class of Christian commentators.

Comment author: hairyfigment 06 May 2012 10:34:32PM 0 points [-]

I don't know that "apologist" counts as a natural class, but he definitely produced Christian apologetics. He may have preferred to call them 'refutations' of non-Christian or atheist doctrines.

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