I wonder if there is a place where the nice people can debate about how to deal with the impact of the bad people on their lives.
I mean, people already throw a hissy fit when they see someone saying things like: "I think I may be more intelligent / rational than other people, and it annoys me to be constantly surrounded by people who are less intelligent / rational than me", and now imagine that the person says "good" instead.
You may have misunderstood. I am asking about why your reply got -5 agreement vote despite it seeming correct to me, nothing related to the other comments.
0Vladimir_Nesov
Anti-inductive advice isn't dangerous or useless, it's just a poor form for its content, it's better to formulate such things differently so that they don't have this issue. The argument for why it's poor form doesn't have this particular piece of advice (if it's to be taken as advice at all) as a central example, but a particular thing not being a central example for some argument doesn't weaken the argument when it's considered in its own right.
Like with the end of the world, the point isn't that it's something that happens sooner than in 20 years, but that it's going to happen at some point, and wasting another 20 years on not doing anything about it isn't the takeaway from predicting that it'll take longer.