In Latvia, local assistance [to Nazi regime] was greater than anywhere else. According to the American historian Raul Hilberg, the Latvians had the highest proportion of Nazi helpers.
— Spiegel, Hitler's European Holocaust Helpers
Popper's desire to swamp his opponents with criticism results in a failure to distinguish good arguments from bad. While one may applaud Popper's conviction that real argument is preferable to the kind of suggestive observations that Wittgenstein and his followers used to throw out, Popper himself has debased the currency of argument by his indiscriminate employment of any argument that comes to hand. Does Popper really think, for instance, that it is an argument against the impossibility of doubting one's own existence that Kipa, a Sharpa who went further up Everest than was good for him, afterward thought he was dead? Or even that Popper himself had the same experience when struck by lightning in the Austrian Alps (Objective Knowledge, p. 36, emphasis mine)? Any undergraduate philosopher would reply that believing one is dead is very different from believing that one doesn't exist.
— Peter Singer, Discovering Karl Popper
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