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I'm quite torn about this. In some ways, it seems massively irresponsible, but framed another way, it makes some sense. I think it's important to distinguish here between "screw experts they don't know anything" and "I've taken your professional opinion into account, and will be making my decision." The second has a long, long history in anarchist thought: > Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In
> the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning
> houses, canals, or railroads, I consult that of the architect or the
> engineer. For such or such special knowledge I apply to such or such a
> savant. But I allow neither the bootmaker nor the architect nor the savant to
> impose his authority upon me. I listen to them freely and with all the
> respect merited by their intelligence, their character, their knowledge,
> reserving always my incontestable right of criticism and censure. I do not
> content myself with consulting a single authority in any special branch; I
> consult several; I compare their opinions, and choose that which seems to me
> the soundest. But I recognise no infallible authority, even in special
> questions; consequently, whatever respect I may have for the honesty and the
> sincerity of such or such an individual, I have no absolute faith in any
> person. Such a faith would be fatal to my reason, to my liberty, and even to
> the success of my undertakings; it would immediately transform me into a
> stupid slave, an instrument of the will and interests of others.
>
> - Bakunin, "What is Authority" http://www.panarchy.org/bakunin/authority.1871.html
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