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by mr_spothawk
2543 days ago
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> These people I'm not sure what group of people you just Other'd, but I am suggesting that you re-read your post and consider: a) whether you still hold the view you espoused 13 minutes ago that some group of humans are non-thinking. b) whether the message you're trying to make could be more clearly articulated. to me, it reads like you're making really broad statements which you believe to be immune to any challenge or reasoning. |
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Then try re-reading my comment.
> a) whether you still hold the view you espoused 13 minutes ago that some group of humans are non-thinking.
I said they are not thinkers, and they aren't, they aren't interested in competing ideas or what's factual, and as such high ideals as the marketplace of ideas coming true in the end are at best naive.
> b) whether the message you're trying to make could be more clearly articulated.
I was pretty clear - a lot of people are very stupid. Look at how they hurt themselves and each other, look at reality tv, look at ... hell you don'[t have to look very far.
Again, I'm not claiming to be the smartest guy in the room, neither am I claiming to have a solution. I'm just trying to point out that these abstract ideals about ideas being allowed to propagate and compete, about allowing and supporting the dissemination of hatred from your platform in order to better fight it in the open, that when you do fight them with better arguments, people will listen... these ideas are pretty demonstrably flawed.