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You know, I've felt that examining the dust speck vs torture dilemma or stuff like that, finding a way to derive an intuitively false conclusion from intuitively true premises, and thereby concluding that the conclusion must be true after all (rather than there's some kind of flaw in the proof you can't see yet) is analogous to seeing a proof that 0 equals 1 or that a hamburger is better than eternal happiness or that no feather is dark, not seeing the mistake in the proof straight away, and thereby concluding that the conclusion must be true. Does anyone else feel the same?
Yes. The known unreliability of my own thought processes tempers my confidence in any prima facie absurd conclusion I come to. All the more so when it's a conclusion I didn't come to, but merely followed along with someone else's argument to.