Comments on: None Evil or All Evil? http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/none_evil_or_al.html Overcoming Bias is economist Robin Hanson’s blog, on honesty, signaling, disagreement, forecasting, and the far future. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:32:05 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: TGGP http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/none_evil_or_al.html#comment-421195 TGGP Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:47:10 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/03/none-evil-or-all-evil.html#comment-421195 The reason all you fools are irrational is your belief in an objective morality! Just ditch that and you'll have true beliefs, just like me. Perhaps we should attempt to find people that we detest but nevertheless agree with on certain issues. The reason all you fools are irrational is your belief in an objective morality! Just ditch that and you’ll have true beliefs, just like me.

Perhaps we should attempt to find people that we detest but nevertheless agree with on certain issues.

]]> By: Robin Hanson http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/none_evil_or_al.html#comment-421194 Robin Hanson Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:32:47 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/03/none-evil-or-all-evil.html#comment-421194 Hal, it would be interesting to see more detailed quotes about such attributions, to elaborate it as a case study of disagreement. Hal, it would be interesting to see more detailed quotes about such attributions, to elaborate it as a case study of disagreement.

]]> By: Hal Finney http://www.overcomingbias.com/2007/03/none_evil_or_al.html#comment-421193 Hal Finney Tue, 13 Mar 2007 19:29:52 +0000 http://prod.ob.trike.com.au/2007/03/none-evil-or-all-evil.html#comment-421193 One thing I have noticed is that people not only attribute disagreement to moral failings of their opponents, but to psychological ones as well. Among Peak Oil believers it is common to attribute society's widespread skepticism on the issue to the inability to accept the truth that our pleasant lifestyle is doomed. On the other side, skeptics sometimes point to doomsters' willing acceptance of other forms of catastrophism (such as a real estate crash) as indicating psychological needs for these kinds of beliefs. One thing I have noticed is that people not only attribute disagreement to moral failings of their opponents, but to psychological ones as well. Among Peak Oil believers it is common to attribute society’s widespread skepticism on the issue to the inability to accept the truth that our pleasant lifestyle is doomed. On the other side, skeptics sometimes point to doomsters’ willing acceptance of other forms of catastrophism (such as a real estate crash) as indicating psychological needs for these kinds of beliefs.

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