It would be nice for everyone to achieve the platonic ideal of having a gapless empirical understanding of the world from root to stem. It is not possible for

It would be nice for everyone to achieve the platonic ideal of having a gapless empirical understanding of the world from root to stem. It is not possible for a single person to do that, let alone everyone. At some point it becomes necessary to trust if we are going to provide and consume information remotely. Ideas do not exist without context. Arguably the context is more essential than individual ideas. Judging ideas without context is not a useful exercise. It's easy to fall into a local minimum that's actually quite bad. Eugenics is a common example. Eliminating genetic disease sounds great as long as you don't have the context of genocide or humanism.