[nickff]

I think that dismissals may improve one's standing within an 'in-group', at the cost of further hardening the opposition (by an 'out-group'). I generally see dismissals as indicators of arrogance, and signs that the author may not have thought through all the implications of their proposal.

[JetAlone]

If we could separate their entanglements, we would find that the cost of this or that sort of energy is nothing compared to the cost of systematically despising out-groupers.