TheCosmicKid
Hero
Um... context is pretty important here. He's not telling you that you must love Big Brother, he's saying that professional expertise is a thing. Do you second-guess everything your dentist does? Probably not. That's trust. But if your dentist starts screwing up in noticeable ways, the trust erodes, and you stop going to that dentist, because "trust" is not the same as "blind faith". That's the story @FrogReaver is pretty clearly telling about Crawford, and I'm willing to bet that as a basic epistemic approach you agree with it. You are both rationally anti-authoritarian. No soapboxes are required in this conversation.Why would anyone ever have inherent trust in an authority figure, for any reason, in any context?
Authority does not automatically generate trust.
So the question is merely: has Crawford screwed up here? And as it turns out, after checking his page citation, FrogReaver and I were wrong. The "on its turn" restriction is there on MM p.11. I think in hindsight Crawford would be the first to say that it's not as explicit or as well-placed as it could be, but its intent is clear enough. So that's it, the matter has been settled. Nothing more to argue about, everybody move on.