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Awesome!
And simpleminded, grounded in nauseating piety and a shared if arbitrary sense of fellow feeling - like most "powerful" messages. That's how narrative works and probably why Rorty wasn't so good at it himself.
That sounds like a plausible claim, given the arguments themselves. But it does make you wonder why 1,500 Iranians attended his lecture in Tehran.
In specific terms, the level and type of "suffering" alleviated doesn't particularly stir my sympathy, and I haven't a clue whether the complicated end result of the program would be a net positive over time even in those terms. You don't have to be hostile to the prnciple of chest-thumping appeal to end up annoyed by the thumping. Simply being unmoved by it will almost guarantee that result.