Thank you, I really like this framing. Means and ends, yes, moral and strategic. That's part of the distinction I was groping for. I think you're perhaps over-optimistic about how much it's possible to convince people about factual differences by referring to evidence, but in general, yes, people are much more attached to their underlying moral axioms than to particular facts about what strategy works
Miscellaneous. Eclectic. Random. Perhaps markedly literate, or at least suffering from the compulsion to read any text that presents itself, including cereal boxes.
(no subject)
Date: 2014-06-12 04:24 pm (UTC)