From the comments (I know, I know…): “And indeed, without proper knowledge of the constraints, giving power to the Unserious will almost always be a disaster – but it doesn’t follow that the Very Serious People are right. After all, there are some events that are better understood in terms of morality, and the very fact that some people have detailed expertise and knowledge of an issue is not a neutral fact, but evidence about the kind of approach they like to take to such a situation.”