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I remember when I was 20, and had just finished reading "Machinery of Freedom", intent on fixing all the glaringly obvious problems in society by applying a med

• innguest 12y ago
  > Happily, I have now grown up. But you haven't grown up enough to avoid making appeals to authority in order to justify a moral high ground. I remember when I was 20 and I believed that those that were older than me knew more than I did because they were grown ups. Then I learned knowing is hard work, lots of reading involved, and most people avoid the legwork and jump straight to the "I know better now that I'm a grown up" because few call them out on it. Grow up.
  • bitserf 12y ago
    What appeal to authority? The whole point of my comment was that I'm now more unsure of anything than I was when I was younger and more susceptible to appealingly simple solutions. The world is incredibly grey.
    • innguest 12y ago
      The appeal to authority is "I'm older, therefore wiser regarding subject matter X". Being unsure is excellent. Relying on maxims such as "simple solutions are wrong" is not. Simple or complex, the only way to prove something wrong is by refuting it. For that you need reason. Maxims are not refutations.