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by malvosenior 2808 days ago
> I think provocative theses are necessary, in line with the Socratic method, and even though my original comment wasn't directly aimed at the arguments in the article, the entire point of a provocative viewpoint is to question the entire narrative of something on a fundamental level.

I agree, especially since the original article was making a similar type of claim. When you go that for down a line politically, it's useful to look at things from the opposite perspective. People don't have to agree, but I don't think we should be flagging or banning comments like yours on topics like this.