From the woman who filed a sex complaint against Al Gore:
… She talked to friends … who advised against telling police. One asked her "to just suck it up; otherwise, the world's going to be destroyed from global warming."
WTF?
Let’s think symmetrically: if Dick Cheney had made unwanted advances on a woman who came to his room to service his gun collection, would her friends advise her to keep it quiet because otherwise the world is going to be destroyed by al Qaeda?
I don’t think so.
Let’s think about the tradeoffs implicit in that quote. At a minimum, there’s an equivalence there between an action that did take place (if you’re the alleged victim’s friend, I think you have to accept their story) with the possibility that a single person might be able to do something about a global issue whose scope is uncertain.
That’s magical thinking … and it’s rather astounding that it exists at all in this day and age.
What are the limits to the conclusions that someone who thinks this way could draw about other mundane events?
