The ever popular Batman theory of criminology.

There is, and I think you're probably right about where it comes from. But even in Protestantism, things can spend a long time going sideways before judgment arrives. The always-in-equilibrium addition is Panglossian, an irresistible temptation for those who need to be all judgment, all of the time

Yeah, 'screw the other guys' is a different ballgame. imho there are a lot of places you can end up after realizing the childish view (or the view people try to give children, whether or not they buy it) where everyone basically gets what they deserve is not true. And that's a common shitty one.

Looking out at the discussion of storm damage in the American South reminds me that the urge to find reasons why people having bad shit happen to them deserved it is not just gross but part of the same childish always-in-equilibrium moral universe as 'people who are poor must be stupid or immoral'.

Figured something like that. The asymmetry of elements in your original post is important though. Fixing callous disregard renders a lot of ignorance harmless, but the other way around doesn't work. That dude, better informed, will just point his callous disregard at some other poor fuckers instead.

👆underrated tweet and the actually important point in slurry of 'look at the bad man' comments

"As one of" obviously. Unlike Dan, some of us would benefit from an editor for any quantity of text 😞

As was one of the (many) people who gave draft comments on one of Dan Dennett's books it was striking just how different the author's first shot & the vigorously edited final product were. And this for someone whose unedited prose was great.

Part of the shamelessness - masquerading, I suppose, as respect for expertise - of academic publishers is the absolutely minimal editorial attention many books seem to get. Or perhaps we should have seen them beforehand...

Honestly, the space of interesting drink flavours seems relatively unexplored, despite that most of the world's national and subnational drinks experiments are in principle accessible.