> Consensus shouldn't be the goal. Not for everything, correct. But there also are ideas that can hardly coexist and areas were consensus seems necessary. Poli

> Consensus shouldn't be the goal. Not for everything, correct. But there also are ideas that can hardly coexist and areas were consensus seems necessary. Politics is an obvious one, since at the end of the day the laws we make will govern all of us. > You google it, read the arguments of the vaccine-autism connection people and decide that - no, they probably don't. You're now free to vaccinate your children with confidence. It'd be great if the world / human nature worked that way. But then we also wouldn't have got to a point were falling vaccination rates are a problem. > [..] If you post about it online then you'll be banned [..] Simply banning everyone doesn't sound like a good way to form consensus, doesn't it? That's a bit of a straw man, isn't it? Have you ever seen someone advocating for banning someone for genuinely asking questions? Do you think the people this article is about were just asking questions? But yeah, determining who is a bad faith actor isn't an easy task. Especially in highly divisive times.