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I don't _think_ so. I think there are certain research areas which are interesting, but research outcomes are so potentially misused or politically incendiary
by pnathan 6y ago
I don't _think_ so.
I think there are certain research areas which are interesting, but research outcomes are so potentially misused or politically incendiary that there are no research done by people of good will.
If you're curious what those are, that would be any root of an arbitrary topic that is contentious in the US culture wars.
- defen 6y agoSo going back to the Robert George quote from the essay - imagine you had been born a white male into a southern slave-holding family in 1750. What basis do you have for believing you would have been against chattel slavery? It seems like your only two options are "I just wouldn't have had an opinion on it" or "My opinions TODAY are uniquely correct for all time going forward". Unless you like to imagine future-you persecuting current-you.