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The rationalist movement has been talking about this since the beginning, and has consistently come to the conclusion that of course the thing to do is admit to our own fallibility and try to do the best we can with our profound limitations.

(You didn’t explicitly say otherwise, so if my exasperation is misdirected then you have my apology in advance.)






No need to apologize, I am unashamedly an opponent of rationalism and I hold the entire movement and every one like it in history in withering contempt.



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