Rule of thumb: benefiting from X being the status quo makes you a legitimate expert on the not-X proposal, but suffering the externalities of X makes you incompetent to speak about X or not-X.
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I'm afraid I don't understand. Why should this be the case?
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The presumption is incompetence, not partial competence. "You can't be thinking rationally about climate change if you're all emotional about your island nation vanishing"
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