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DanArmak comments on Are we failing the ideological Turing test in the case of ISIS? (a crazy ideas thread) - Less Wrong Discussion

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Comment author: DanArmak 09 January 2016 09:24:41PM 3 points [-]

I'm not saying anything about the listed theories. I'm talking about your motivation for listing theories at all, and not accepting things at face value. Why do you think ISIS needs to be explained at all and not taken at their word, more so than any other group of people? Why do you think (apparently) that if ISIS are sincere in everything they've said, that makes them "lunatics" and not "rational"?