> Responses to Pinker's writings can be divided into two groups: The rational pessimists and the rational optimists. It seems to me you're ignoring the irratio

> Responses to Pinker's writings can be divided into two groups: The rational pessimists and the rational optimists. It seems to me you're ignoring the irrational people who respond to Pinker's writings. That's a reasonable thing to do, but there sure are a lot of them...