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Yes, this is the draw back of scientism and state sponsored science. The “experts” are experts in everything. This is like assuming that actors know anything about physics or economics, let alone politics. Probably a big mistake.
It's one of the reasons that I only ever refer to myself as an "expert" ironically.
On most interesting or important matters there are plenty of lay people who know every bit as much as I do.
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I won’t even do that much! I despise experts and expertise until they prove said expertise. Then, I never assume they know anything else about anything else. After Faucci, I think that is the safest way to go.
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Then, I never assume they know anything else about anything else
That is absolutely the correct policy.
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Yeah, I am kind of tired of hearing jocks and nerds telling me what is best for me. They don’t know sh*t about my life, expectations and goals.
That is another think I despise; liberals and their fellow communists, telling me what is good for me (even though it hurts) and then feeling good about it.
What was it Chesterton said about that kind of tyrant?
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All I remember about Chesterton is the fence.
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Chesterton, along with C.S. Lewis, suggests that it would be better to live under a robber baron than under an omnipotent moral busybody. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, and their cupidity may be satiated, but those who torment others for their own good will do so without end, with the approval of their own conscience.
I equate the tyrant to the moral busybody because they seem to be much the same.
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Indeed, that argument is familiar and I agree with it.
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Yes, there are too many of the pearl clutching moral busybodies out and about now-a-days.