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> An activist who thinks another system would be better has to convince people that their alternative will achieve more. Not necessarily according to Pinker's
by sooheon 9y ago
> An activist who thinks another system would be better has to convince people that their alternative will achieve more.
Not necessarily according to Pinker's cherry picked statistics. Plantation owners were not going to achieve more by freeing their slaves, at least according to their own accounting.
- haberman 9y agoSure, if someone else thinks other statistics are relevant, they can cite those. I agree that a plantation owner would probably have cited statistics that didn't capture the harms of the fact that they are enslaving people.