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But it does mean we're empowered to proceed and consider his claims on the merits and not just go into a shutdown and disregard which I would suggest is an intellectually lazy cop out, and not at all in nuanced way of bringing consideration of potential biases to bear on the merit of the arguments. If the effect of encountering that information is that you refuse to consider any arguments on their merits then I think there's a kind of information literacy issue at play, because the correct assessment would be to assess the extent to which they do or don't mitigate the severity of the claims, rather than to brush them aside wholesale.



In general you’re correct. But this is a political matter. Putting intellectual principles above common sense is just naive.


I don't understand what for you are the pertinent intellectual principles or what for you counts as common sense in this context.

I don't understand what it means for those principles to be in conflict and I'm not sure that I would agree, upon clarification, that one is being put above the other or that the nature of the relationship between them is such that you choose between them with mutual exclusivity.




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