From the same entry:
> However, evidence that the question was widely debated in medieval scholarship is lacking.[5] One theory is that it is an early modern fabrication,[a] used to discredit scholastic philosophy at a time when it still played a significant role in university education.
Clearly a lot of "effective altruists" for example, want to argue that the most altruistic thing they could possibly be doing is to earn as much money as they possibly can and horde as much wealth as they possibly can, so they'll come up with a tower of logic based on far-fetched ideas like making humans an interplanetary species or hyperintelligent AIs, or life extension or whatever so they can come up with absurd arguments like: If we don't end up an interplanetary species, billions and billions billions of people will never be born so that's obviously the most important thing anybody could ever be working on, so who cares about that kid starving in Africa right now. He's not going to be a rocket scientist, what good is he?
One thing most philosophers learned at some point is that you need to temper rationalism with a lot of humility because every chain of logic has all kinds of places where it could be wrong, and any of those being wrong is catastrophic to the outcome of your logic.
This mechanism is exactly why the more intelligent a person is, the more likely they are to believe very weird things. They can more easily assemble a chain of rational logic to lead them to whatever it is that they want to believe.
Very much a double edged sword.
Fuck em.