> The solution to bad ideas is more ideas, not less. This is true if and only if there is sufficient bandwidth to process all those ideas AND the actors are al

> The solution to bad ideas is more ideas, not less. This is true if and only if there is sufficient bandwidth to process all those ideas AND the actors are all people who are trying to learn/seek truth. Expertise and conversation time is limited, and it's considerably cheaper to ask questions and sow doubt than it is to fully address those questions. Given that asymmetry, it feels more than reasonable to accept certain things as ground truth and eliminate time wasted on dealing with trolls.