Jonah Goldberg posts an email with yet another good reason to be skeptical.
It’s just that I’m instinctively suspicious of people who put forth arguments based ostensibly on rational and humanitarian grounds, when those arguments would, if accepted by all relevant parties, result in greater power being granted those making the argument. In other words, I don’t believe people who say the earth is getting hotter because, if we all decided that the earth really was getting hotter, that would just happen to imply that we should all show more willingness to grant greater power and influence to the people telling us the earth is getting hotter.
Indeed it’s an appropriate red flag.
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