I also can’t help but note accusations about status are generally a double edged sword. Maybe what’s really going on here is you’re making a bid for status by accusing others of being status seeking, thus pronouncing judgement and diagnosis on their petty motives, and for implying you (of course!) are above such things.
Grandiosely overconfident and really edgy stuff like “There was not even one altruistic childbirth in all of history” also seems more apt for getting iconoclastic status than ‘strategic vagueness’ (i.e. not being sure in the face of moral and empirical uncertainty).
I also can’t help but note accusations about status are generally a double edged sword. Maybe what’s really going on here is you’re making a bid for status by accusing others of being status seeking, thus pronouncing judgement and diagnosis on their petty motives, and for implying you (of course!) are above such things.
Grandiosely overconfident and really edgy stuff like “There was not even one altruistic childbirth in all of history” also seems more apt for getting iconoclastic status than ‘strategic vagueness’ (i.e. not being sure in the face of moral and empirical uncertainty).