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Oh, sure, when you agree with something controversial, it is just society being irrational. But when you disagree with something, it is obviously because it is
by LudwigNagasena 7y ago
Oh, sure, when you agree with something controversial, it is just society being irrational. But when you disagree with something, it is obviously because it is crackpottery.
Don’t you think people who are against these “heresies” have exactly the same view?
- philwelch 7y agoDid you even read my comment before replying to it?
- LudwigNagasena 7y agoYes.
- philwelch 7y agoYou clearly either didn’t understand it or just didn’t bother to address the actual point I was making, so I couldn’t tell.
- LudwigNagasena 7y agoHave you ever seen a person who believes in such things? They think they are being rational and society just shouts them down. Sometimes it is even true (obviously, society can’t debate the same things over and over, it would be ridiculous to have a discussion on whether rape is bad in prime time every week or so). The most obvious modern examples that makes it into news is the amount of racists, neonazis and misogynists who claim that they just want a debate and a public outcry from a big group of people to deplatform them to the point that they have to pay massive amounts of security fees when they make public speeches. I have addressed your point but it seems you didn’t get, maybe I wasn’t clear enough, I hope in hindsight you will see what I meant. Or look at moon landing conspiracy, or 9/11 conspiracy, people gather massive amount of evidence to support their claims. Simply applying a bit of empathy and retrospection should make you understand what’s the problem what you are saying.
- philwelch 7y agoThere are actual, fact-based debunkings of moon landing conspiracies, creationism, astrology, etc. That was my entire point and what makes these cases different from the evolution controversy or Lysenkoism.
- LudwigNagasena 7y agoHave you read the link?