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What about climate change? Should we continue to give a platform to climate change deniers?
by patientplatypus 7y ago
What about climate change? Should we continue to give a platform to climate change deniers?
- erik_seaberg 7y agoKeep countering with better arguments. They'll gain support if they can point at an actual conspiracy silencing them.
- patientplatypus 7y agoAnd once all of the political capital and opportunity cost has gone into proving that science is true it will be too late to do anything to save us. Color me unconvinced.
- krageon 7y agoYou can't counter someone with arguments when they have lost touch with reality. It is a losing proposition no matter what, because you are just losing energy throwing arguments at a literal wall of ignorance. This sort of trolling (or god forbid actual ignorance) does not deserve a voice anywhere. There are plenty of people with disturbed thinking we don't spend time listening to and we do this because we already know it won't make a lick of difference: At the end of the day, they're still not capable of thinking coherent thoughts no matter how much you talk at them.
- erik_seaberg 7y agoIt's the audience you need to convince, not the other side. Banning them makes your position look weak.
- krageon 7y agoThe only people that the position would "look weak" to would be people who don't understand what it means when something is just a verifiable truth. I would posit you lose nothing by ignoring them.
- arduanika 7y agoIf it can't be questioned, it's not science. All the labcoats and vials in the world can't make you a scientist if you don't believe in inquiry.