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by lame88 2610 days ago
True, I can see how in this case, at that time, it could be effective. But ironically, there seems to be a similar dogma surrounding FP these days - speaking even as a fan of the paradigm, with a perspective tempered by experience. I can’t help but think that polarized viewpoints like this contribute to replacing the subject of the idealization rather than the underlying problem of idealizing itself, if only indirectly due to the combination of the arguments themselves and the sense of authority behind them, rather than the merit of the arguments alone.