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by xvilka 2735 days ago
I always wondered how it is possible to be a nation of innovation and still be so idiotically puritanical. Clearly a smart person cannot support this step back into the dark ages of witch hunt.
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Really? I know engineers of all stripes who hold fundamentalist religious views.

I know an engineer doing well at Amazon for 7 years now, who pays a 3rd party streaming service that sensors violence and sexuality from movies for him.

Musings on it here: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Engineers_and_woo

Strongly disagree; intelligence does not prevent illogical behavior at all.