Upwingers Fighting Downwingers
The Political Orphanage
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The Down Winger, Up Winger View of Evolution
The bishops are not sufficiently sensitive to that sense of the natural variation of the human condition, he says. The attitude toward risk is the central point, right? Because the probabilities are not very high, but of course you can kind of jack up the anxiety. And so that then, that skews people's judgments on the matter. That makes it so like Monsanto, I look at Monsanto and I'm like, I don't know whether the company acts ethically in terms of business, but the idea of making crops have better yields to me is just brazenly obviously a good thing. So we got to not take that risk. Well, this is where the issue of how the probabilities weigh
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