[redserk]

There is also the other extreme of deliberately ignoring indicators that something is amiss.

Often people in pseudo-intellectual circles conflate aligning with that extreme with intelligence when it’s equally as foolish.

[refulgentis]

Yeah you're right, and ultimately it's important to discuss and bring up.

Just because I can invent a reason someone else can write it off...well, that doesn't shed any light either.

It's clear you can always find at least 15% of some group who will find a reason to write anything off.

(I'm basing that off of some stats I saw re: moon landing denial recently)

[aspenmayer]

> Just because I can invent a reason someone else can write it off...well, that doesn't shed any light either.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens's_razor

> Hitchens's razor is an epistemological razor that serves as a general rule for rejecting certain knowledge claims. It states:

>> What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

> The razor is credited to author and journalist Christopher Hitchens, although its provenance can be traced to the Latin Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur ("What is asserted gratuitously is denied gratuitously"). It implies that the burden of proof regarding the truthfulness of a claim lies with the one who makes the claim; if this burden is not met, then the claim is unfounded, and its opponents need not argue further in order to dismiss it. Hitchens used this phrase specifically in the context of refuting religious belief.