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And your qualifications to make this call as opposed to a professional like a librarian are?
by jasonlotito 5y ago
And your qualifications to make this call as opposed to a professional like a librarian are?
- dredmorbius 5y agoNumerous libraries will take recommendations for book purchases. Acting on those tends to scale with the reputation of author and/or publisher, but there are reasonably good odds.
- abnry 5y agoIt is obviously not an "expert" issue, but a values issue, which anyone is able to argue. In fact, this common equivocation of "expert knowledge" with "value judgments" is a scourge on our modern discourse.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> And your qualifications to make this call as opposed to a professional like a librarian are? This is a... stunningly helpless and pathetic appeal to authority. Librarians are professionals in the field of locating information within a collection. They are not professionals in the field of what books people should or shouldn't read. That is a moral question; the relevant professional would be a priest or similar.