[krapp]

For example - any thread even tangentially related to the Paris attacks recently. There are probably still subthreads simmering over whether Islam is really a death cult or no more evil than Christianity or whether the West really had it coming, or whether maybe we should just nuke all of Asia and be done with it. Except really it was all a false flag operation by the New World Order because Snowden. For a while, the comments page was practically toxic - and every bit of it entirely predictable.

I'm starting to see now why some people say engineers can be prone to rigid and extremist political views. When your day job requires you to prove things to a certain degree of correctness, maybe it makes sense to believe the world and people should work the same way. There seems to be far too much cynicism, vitriol and condescension here around some subjects, and too many people who seem to think those are the qualities of a keen intellect. Maybe politics is one of those fields everyone just thinks they're an expert at.

[mindcrime]

I'm starting to see now why some people say engineers can be prone to rigid and extremist political views.

I really don't see engineers being in any way unique in that regard.