As far as I understand, EY believes that anyone who does not subscribe to his very specific set of beliefs regarding cognitive bias and probability theory is simply not competent enough to judge what is in his/her/their best interests.
I don’t know if EY would agree with this statement or not. I personally would disagree, however. Sure, without the understanding of “cognitive biases and probability theory”, a person is liable to make suboptimal decisions. However, I believe that most people are competent enough to achieve at least some of their goals in a satisfactory fashion.
The difference between you and me, as far as I understand, is that you believe that unless everyone sets “destruction of the patriarchy using the methods of radical feminism” as their primary goal, they should not be allowed to make any decisions that you don’t approve of. I personally reserve that level of outrage for actions that clearly, demonstrably, hurt other people—f.ex., teaching creationism instead of evolution in schools, restricting women’s right to vote, etc. By contrast, I am perfectly content to let people spend (I would say, “waste”, but they’d disagree) their Sunday mornings in church, if they so choose.
To be sure, it’s fairly easy to demonstrate that a patriarchy of some sort does exist, and that it is harmful. But your concept of “patriarchy” is rather more all-encompassing than that held by most other feminists; and in some cases your claims border on extraordinary. That doesn’t mean that you’re wrong, only that I’m not ready to side with you until you (^) have provided overwhelming proof—which you had not done. I’m not saying that you can’t provide such proof, only that you haven’t so far.
(^) Or any other radical feminist, doesn’t have to be you specifically.
I don’t know if EY would agree with this statement or not. I personally would disagree, however. Sure, without the understanding of “cognitive biases and probability theory”, a person is liable to make suboptimal decisions. However, I believe that most people are competent enough to achieve at least some of their goals in a satisfactory fashion.
The difference between you and me, as far as I understand, is that you believe that unless everyone sets “destruction of the patriarchy using the methods of radical feminism” as their primary goal, they should not be allowed to make any decisions that you don’t approve of. I personally reserve that level of outrage for actions that clearly, demonstrably, hurt other people—f.ex., teaching creationism instead of evolution in schools, restricting women’s right to vote, etc. By contrast, I am perfectly content to let people spend (I would say, “waste”, but they’d disagree) their Sunday mornings in church, if they so choose.
To be sure, it’s fairly easy to demonstrate that a patriarchy of some sort does exist, and that it is harmful. But your concept of “patriarchy” is rather more all-encompassing than that held by most other feminists; and in some cases your claims border on extraordinary. That doesn’t mean that you’re wrong, only that I’m not ready to side with you until you (^) have provided overwhelming proof—which you had not done. I’m not saying that you can’t provide such proof, only that you haven’t so far.
(^) Or any other radical feminist, doesn’t have to be you specifically.