If you get around to writing that post, please consider/address:
Theory of the second best—“The economists Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster showed in 1956 that if one optimality condition in an economic model cannot be satisfied, it is possible that the next-best solution involves changing other variables away from the values that would otherwise be optimal.”—Generalizing from this, given that humans deviate from optimal rationality in all kinds of unavoidable ways, the “second-best” solution may well involve belief in some falsehoods.
Managing risks while trying to do good—We’re all very tempted to overlook risks while trying to do good, including (in this instance) destroying “that which can be destroyed by truth”.
If you get around to writing that post, please consider/address:
Theory of the second best—“The economists Richard Lipsey and Kelvin Lancaster showed in 1956 that if one optimality condition in an economic model cannot be satisfied, it is possible that the next-best solution involves changing other variables away from the values that would otherwise be optimal.”—Generalizing from this, given that humans deviate from optimal rationality in all kinds of unavoidable ways, the “second-best” solution may well involve belief in some falsehoods.
Managing risks while trying to do good—We’re all very tempted to overlook risks while trying to do good, including (in this instance) destroying “that which can be destroyed by truth”.