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Public policy involves two inexorable realities: 1) We have no objective measure of the “best” course of action in many situations. 2) In such situations, many stakeholders have significantly different opinions on what the best course of
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“Muddleheadedness has always been the sovereign force in human affairs—a force far more potent than malevolence or nobility. It lubricates our hurtful impulses and ties our best intentions in knots. It blunts our wisdom, misdirects our compassion, clouds whatever insights into the human condition we manage to acquire. It is the chief artisan of the unintended consequences that constitute human history.”
― Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
― Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science
“Feminism, which is supposedly for everybody, apparently has no place for conservative women. Why would feminists need to exclude entire swaths of the population? Because they know their ideology cannot stand up to challenges, they know they themselves do not understand it, and they know that to accomplish their goals they cannot allow discussion to occur....To pretend that your ideology is impenetrable and the obvious answer to modern social problems and then to turn around and exclude people from the discussion only creates more holes in the theories themselves and serves to demonstrate the liberal superiority complex.”
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“Has society really become quite thin-skinned, or is acting “offended” a new tactic that is being used to shut down legitimate political debate? Progressives are increasingly claiming to be offended whenever those on the right disagree with their left-wing positions. It doesn't matter what the issue is; the left will divert a legitimate political debate into an accusation that the right disagrees with them because they are full of hate towards them.”
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“To liberals, shaming and labeling their opponents is necessary, they believe their opponents to be less of a person than they are.”
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“As indicated by our example, methodological nominalism is nowadays fairly generally accepted in the natural sciences. The problems of the social sciences, on the other hand, are still for the most part treated by essentialist methods. This is, in my opinion, one of the main reasons for their backwardness.”
― The Open Society and Its Enemies
― The Open Society and Its Enemies
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