Particularly with respect to the “Citizens should keep themselves well armed” part, I have serious doubts that this is useful advice in practice or principle; it makes it more difficult for me not to view the rest of the comic negatively, and if you want to cultivate good epistemological and instrumental rationalists, this is probably some of the lowest priority advice you could be giving.
Politics is high priority stuff, and it’s important that it be approached rationally, but if you want to instruct rationalists, it’s one of the worst possible teaching tools.
I agree.
Particularly with respect to the “Citizens should keep themselves well armed” part, I have serious doubts that this is useful advice in practice or principle; it makes it more difficult for me not to view the rest of the comic negatively, and if you want to cultivate good epistemological and instrumental rationalists, this is probably some of the lowest priority advice you could be giving.
Politics is high priority stuff, and it’s important that it be approached rationally, but if you want to instruct rationalists, it’s one of the worst possible teaching tools.