{"id":5121,"date":"2017-10-21T13:33:46","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T13:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/21\/mindless-hostility-to-david-benatar\/"},"modified":"2017-10-21T13:33:46","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T13:33:46","slug":"mindless-hostility-to-david-benatar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/10\/21\/mindless-hostility-to-david-benatar\/","title":{"rendered":"Mindless Hostility to David Benatar"},"content":{"rendered":"

A scurrilous attack piece in The American Spectator<\/em> actually provides a bit of support for pessimism about the human condition.  One ought to be disturbed by the inability of so many journalists to control their emotions and assess arguments in a calm and rational manner. The attack piece in question is beneath refutation and so I won't waste my time rolling a drunk or beating up a cripple. My astute readers will be able to spot the mistakes and misrepresentations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Here is what I would like you to do. First carefully read Benatar's succinct summary<\/a> of his anti-natalism and think about his arguments. Then read the attack piece<\/a>.  Ask yourself whether Benatar's position has been fairly presented.  If you think it has, then I pronounce you an idiot.<\/span><\/p>\n

For the record, I am not now and never have been an anti-natalist.  I am speaking out against<\/em> mindless ideologizing and for<\/em> open inquiry which is under threat not only from the Left and militant Islam, but also from some on the Right.<\/span><\/p>\n

UPDATE (10\/23)<\/span><\/p>\n

Jordan Peterson joins<\/a> those who dismiss without examining.<\/span><\/p>\n

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A scurrilous attack piece in The American Spectator actually provides a bit of support for pessimism about the human condition.  One ought to be disturbed by the inability of so many journalists to control their emotions and assess arguments in a calm and rational manner. The attack piece in question is beneath refutation and so I … Continue reading “Mindless Hostility to David Benatar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[281,282],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anti-natalism","category-benatar-david"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}