Dr. Mabuse. Interestingly, in my own way I addressed Mr. Lewis’s concern in “And What If That Soul Is Really Lost?” where I speak of a need for balance.

But first, In Mr. Lewis’ analogy, we had evidence that posed the question, and we had a choice of accepting that evidence or clinging to the original story.

In my case, I returned to Wretchard’s initial cautionary opinion, having to admit that I may have been too Pollyanna in my own opinion towards Mr. Crook. I did that was even though I was surrounded by opinions that agreed with me.

We humans tend not to admit our errors in judgment, and that surely has something to do with what generates the hatred of which Lewis warned. If unthinking hatred is bad, surely hatred that stems from vanity is even worse. Here I went against my own vanity and thought of the danger’s posed by not sharing with fellow BCers my second thoughts.

I switched my opinion because of my concern about the now openly scornful behavior of our Conditioners — something which Lewis was so concerned over, he not only published his three exhorting lectures as in one bound volume, he wrote a three-part novel to bring the threat alive.

We need to seek the rational precisely because our Conditioners have built a educational system designed to incline us toward the irrational.
Now here is what I wrote regarding our need for balance.

“What I’m talking about today is our need to think twice before will succumb to our earnest desire to project our decency on they who are not (do unto others as thou would have done to thee) so as to better balance that with our need to reward and withhold reward based on merit. For where we are too lax in maintaining the balance, we should not be surprised to find ourselves up to our eyeballs in a muck that is the consequences of demerit after demerit overlooked.”