Raw_Power comments on A Rational Argument - Less Wrong

39 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 02 October 2007 06:35PM

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Comment author: Grognor 09 July 2012 09:02:42PM 0 points [-]

No. The whole point of that phrase is to not get overly complicated in explaining other people's failures.

Comment author: Raw_Power 19 July 2012 09:37:42AM *  -1 points [-]

Explaining and rationalizing/justifying are two different things. Pleading the "humanity is insane" is, to put it bluntly, unproductive and lazy. If you want to say "don't think about it too hard, it's not worth the effort", then say that, and spare us the theatrics.