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If you are an ordinary person, this is the way to go. You are not in business of evaluating arguments. You need to live your life and for that accept the most r
by thriftwy 3y ago
If you are an ordinary person, this is the way to go. You are not in business of evaluating arguments. You need to live your life and for that accept the most reasonable view on everything, verified by your peers.
However, if you have a shot at being intellectual elite of your society, having epistemic helplessness renders you unfit. And we see a lot of people who look like intellectual elite, paid for taking its place, but not doing any reasoning, evaluating and believing of their own. That's why we seemingly only get problems piled up on us.
Imagine a judge who have a popular preoccupation of who is right and who is wrong, before hearing the actual case and using their own experience.