"Of course it's concerning.  However, in the long run, we have very little alternative to following the lines of Reason wherever they may lead us.  If they sometimes lead us astray, we have the option of becoming better at Reason or giving up on Reason, and the second course is not going to lead us less astray.  Reason, indeed, is distinguished mainly by being the only process of thought in which it is at all more difficult for people to come up with persuasive wrong answers.  You could even saying that Reason is defined as precisely those rules of argument which impose the greatest gap of difficulty between persuasively arguing for wrong answers and persuasively arguing for right answers."

"Of course it's concerning.  However, in the long run, we have very little alternative to following the lines of Reason wherever they may lead us.  If they sometimes lead us astray, we have the option of becoming better at Reason or giving up on Reason, and the second course is not going to lead us less astray.  Reason, indeed, is distinguished mainly by being the only process of thought in which it is at all more difficult for people to come up with persuasive wrong answers.  You could even saying that Reason is defined as precisely those rules of argument which impose the greatest gap of difficulty between persuasively arguing for wrong answers and persuasively arguing for right answers.  Thus, it is not really possible to do any better than believing Professor Nightstar when he says something that sounds very reasonable and persuasive."

"Of course it's concerning.  However, in the long run, we have very little alternative to following the lines of Reason wherever they may lead us.  If they sometimes lead us astray, we have the option of becoming better at Reason or giving up on Reason, and the second course is not going to lead us less astray.  Reason, indeed, is distinguished mainly by being the only process of thought in which it is at all more difficult for people to come up with persuasive wrong answers.  You could even say that Reason is defined as precisely those rules of argument which impose the greatest gap of difficulty between persuasively arguing for wrong answers and persuasively arguing for right answers.  Thus, it is not really possible to do any better than believing Professor Nightstar when he says something that sounds very reasonable and persuasive."

"Of course it's concerning.  However, in the long run, we have very little alternative to following the lines of Reason wherever they may lead us.  If they sometimes lead us astray, we have the option of becoming better at Reason or giving up on Reason, and the second course is not going to lead us less astray.  Reason, indeed, is distinguished mainly by being the only process of thought in which it is at all more difficult for people to come up with persuasive wrong answers.  You could even say that Reason is defined as precisely those rules of argument which impose the greatest gap of difficulty between persuasively arguing for wrong answers and persuasively arguing for right answers.  Thus, it is not possible to do any better than believing Professor Nightstar when he says something that sounds very reasonable and persuasive."