This is a completely legitimate concern that I hadn’t thought of, especially not in the terms he expressed it. We’re only bags of chemicals, after all {exaggeration}. It shouldn’t surprise us that we have to pull an Odysseus once in a while (or be one of the sailors with wax in our ears; I’m still working on the metaphor here).
That’s a good analogy. I know that given either human psychology in general or my own psychology in particular I’m better off not having access to certain types of information. Yet if it is available—and particularly if it flashes up somewhere on the screen—it takes huge amounts of willpower to refrain from looking. So tying myself to the mast and issuing wax earplugs to the sailors sounds like a good idea!
That’s a good analogy. I know that given either human psychology in general or my own psychology in particular I’m better off not having access to certain types of information. Yet if it is available—and particularly if it flashes up somewhere on the screen—it takes huge amounts of willpower to refrain from looking. So tying myself to the mast and issuing wax earplugs to the sailors sounds like a good idea!