The book really is defending that claim, but that doesn’t make the claim itself reasonable. Maybe it makes it a reasonable title for the book. Hence my qualifier of only the “literal reading of the title of this post” being about the claim in the book title itself being reasonable, since there is another meaning of the title of the post that’s about a different thing (the choice to title the book this way being reasonable).
I don’t think it’s actually important to spell any of this out, or that IABI vs. IABIED is actually important, or even that the title of the book being reasonable is actually important. I think it’s actually important to avoid any pressure for people to not point out that the claim in the book title seems unreasonable and that the book fails to convince them that the claim’s truth holds with very high credence. And similarly it’s important that there is no pressure to avoid pointing out that ironically, the literal interpretation of the title of this post is claiming that the claim in the book title is reasonable, even if the body of the post might suggest that the title isn’t quite about that, and certainly the post itself is not about that.
The book really is defending that claim, but that doesn’t make the claim itself reasonable. Maybe it makes it a reasonable title for the book. Hence my qualifier of only the “literal reading of the title of this post” being about the claim in the book title itself being reasonable, since there is another meaning of the title of the post that’s about a different thing (the choice to title the book this way being reasonable).
I don’t think it’s actually important to spell any of this out, or that IABI vs. IABIED is actually important, or even that the title of the book being reasonable is actually important. I think it’s actually important to avoid any pressure for people to not point out that the claim in the book title seems unreasonable and that the book fails to convince them that the claim’s truth holds with very high credence. And similarly it’s important that there is no pressure to avoid pointing out that ironically, the literal interpretation of the title of this post is claiming that the claim in the book title is reasonable, even if the body of the post might suggest that the title isn’t quite about that, and certainly the post itself is not about that.