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> This comment reveals what the current social climate is most lacking: open-mindedness and the willingness to consider the nuance of an argument Strongly disa
by peteretep 8y ago
> This comment reveals what the current social climate is most lacking: open-mindedness and the willingness to consider the nuance of an argument
Strongly disagree. The current social climate has people pushing fringe and discredited theories in droves (anti-vaccination, non-belief in climate change, white nationalism, etc, and even flat earthers seem to be making a come-back) and I do not believe I need to be willing to be open-minded or consider the nuance of those arguments.
More insidiously, the tendency to shroud poorly reasoned arguments in flowery language and pass it off as good-faith or intellectual (cf: Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson) seems to be growing.
The most powerful man in the world is currently doubling-down on an anti-scientific anti-climate-change platform; I'm not sure what being open-minded here or listening to his arguments is meant to achieve.
- LoSboccacc 8y agoSee here's the problem one points out Germany has been storming, weaseling and sidestepping the EU governance to push whatever legislation they needed from outside to bypass their legislative blocks at home, of which testimony is ample and wide, and suddenly the internet community bundles him with flat earthers and climate deniers
- peteretep 8y ago> one points out Germany has been A comment points it out, a child comment generalizes that to a different point, and a child comment _to that_ points out what's wrong with the generalization. Where's the problem?