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Originally Posted by Max Cow Disease
...’’Tis true, the man’s perspective on truth does seem rather elastic, and based more on a grander view of moral utility to the species, than to actual truth.
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And that's a prerequisite to having a coherent idea anywhere else. If we can't agree on what it means for a statement to be true, it doesn't matter at all whether we agree or disagree whether anything
else is true or false.
So when he says things that seem to make sense about, for example, the pay gap, he's either not living by his own positions on the nature of reality, or he's making sense by the lights of most people (who have a fairly uniform view of how you find out what's real) purely by coincidence. I'm not sure that makes him not worth listening to on the topic, but it certainly doesn't make him any less of a kook.