John David Pressman's Tweets - June 2019

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@s_r_constantin 1. Do you believe these three quoted beliefs are in fact true?
2. If not, do you think it's always evil to attempt to convince people of this fact?

@verdesensacion @Jilchrest Stupidity and evil are the only two forces powerful enough to compete in the marketplace of ideas.

@s_r_constantin This seems like a strange definition of benevolence. The universe merely being *stable*, if not particularly invested in my success wouldn't qualify in my book.

@s_r_constantin Especially since the stability doesn't actually exclude outcomes like "a meteor hits the earth and kills everybody" or "runaway greenhouse gas emissions literally destroy the biosphere". The traumatic shearing away of one illusion forces trust of deeper principles e.g statistics.