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It makes me sad seeing a community I’d otherwise regard as intelligent being so profoundly ignorant. But I also acknowledge this is a western culture issue mor
by slumpt_ 6y ago
It makes me sad seeing a community I’d otherwise regard as intelligent being so profoundly ignorant.
But I also acknowledge this is a western culture issue more than one of intelligence alone.
Discouraging nonetheless. We’ve really messed up.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoIt seems terribly unfair to call it profound ignorance. As you say, it's a values difference. If you remember learning about "individualism", that's what it means; it's the idea that the collective doesn't have unbounded authority to tell individuals what to do.
- Chris2048 6y ago> It makes me sad seeing a community I’d otherwise regard as intelligent being so profoundly ignorant I feel the same about religion, so AFAIK this has always been so - move along, nothing to see here. Except religion has been around long enough to excuse itself from the obvious, or a least to bare its fangs at anyone thinking of commenting on the emperor's new clothes..