On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 06:52:49AM -0700, Gautam Mukunda wrote: > Look Erik, this isn't actually that hard.
Right, double standards make things quite easy. > But not all disagreements are worthy of respect. Understood. People disagreeing with you must respect you, but you don't have to respect people you disagree with. Crystal clear. > You can _honestly believe_ that option 1 was the right thing to do > in both cases. But if you _honestly believe_ that, then you do so > because you _honestly think_ that the blindness or death of millions > isn't as important as very, very small risks of unspecified future > harm. Or they could honestly disagree with you that the risks are not so small. If they think there is a 1% probability for a 90% human race die-off, then the probable number of people they are "trying to save" would be more than 50 million people. A 20% probability would be over a billion people saved, in their view. As you've asked me, why is it so hard to accept that someone honestly disagrees with you? -- Erik Reuter http://www.erikreuter.net/
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