absolutely but it isn't being invoked to justify being less trusting of them, it's being invoked to justify why the massive campaign to set them on fire was completely appropriate even though it was based on outright lies and not abandoned after the lies came to light
oh sure, i have some kind of weird affection for noah from back when he was running a blog called Hooded Utilitarian and i thought the effort to seriously integrate comic book ethics was cute even though his aesthetic judgment was so consistently wrong to be perverse