When it’s raining outside it’s smart to wear a raincoat, regardless of what anybody else thinks. So the only burden a person has is to determine, based on the evidence, whether it is raining. We don’t have to decide whether rain today would be absurd; we have only to observe the evidence that it is or isn’t raining.
A lot of people are very uncomfortable with how things are going right now because they see this or that thing that doesn’t pass the smell test, but they only see the dots in isolation so they miss the big picture. They can’t put their finger on exactly what is wrong, but the uneasy assurance of “Oh, it could never happen here” is disintegrating before our very eyes, with each new scandal that surfaces showing that this administration considers EVERYTHING to be a game of “screw the people and the law”.