| > And dismissing the fact that the environment didn't produce the same outcome for all the other individuals isn't myopic? That’s just his statistics work… Making a rare event more common does not make it a certainty. Again, we don’t know about any possible other people who might have been seriously disturbed in other, less attention-grabbing ways. Nobody said that it was the only reason, but let’s be honest: if you take unstable people and condition them that way, such outcomes are not inconceivable. Saying that the experiment (weekly hours of psychological torture) did not affect this is not really believable. > There's more nuance here than "Well, it was the environment". It’s a good thing nobody said that, then… > If the sample was large (more than a few hundred), then it becomes more probable than the environment was not the deciding factor in TKs state of mind. Regardless of sample size, people who go full rogue that way are exceedingly rare in the first place. You’d need thousands upon thousands of subjects to detect increases over a baseline chance of 1:10000000. > Simply dismissing all the agency TK had is specious. Again, nobody said that. In any case, I certainly did not. I think we can have a rational discourse between “he was inhuman and absolutely evil” (he was not) and “he was actually right” (he was not either). In the end, he was just a human. His nature, upbringing, and environment all played roles. |