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How do you propose handling the asymmetry between asking questions and answering them? It's much, much cheaper for someone with outlandish views to shotgun you
by Pfhreak 5y ago
How do you propose handling the asymmetry between asking questions and answering them?
It's much, much cheaper for someone with outlandish views to shotgun you with questions than it is to answer them all in detail.
Combine this with the fact that there are fewer experts than there are trolls/people with outlandish views.
Further combine this with the fact that the trolls/outlandish views folks are not coming to get themselves educated, they are coming to try and convince others to hold their outlandish views.
How do you propose we keep a community resilient against that?
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoThis is exactly why the "Gish gallop" turns out to be an effective debating technique.
- scarmig 5y agoI remember back in the day when people cared about creationists, there was the Talk.origins FAQ, which you could just point people to. AskHistorians even has an FAQ that could be used similarly. That said, it'd still lead to a degradation and constant mod cleanup work to post links to the FAQ and close the thread (if not closed, fellow travelers would upvote it and use it as a JAQ platform).
- Tostino 5y agoAn insane number of people still hold the same creationist beliefs as back then, but I am happy it's not in the public discourse as much.
- jfengel 5y agoExpect to see it more: https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/apr/08/house-advances-bill-to-let-schools-teach/ https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/apr/08/house-advanc... This is brought on by a change in the composition of the Supreme Court, and there's a significant chance it will permit creationism in schools. Expect to see more attempts to reach the Supreme Court to overturn its previous decisions, and if it does, expect a great many states to pass similar laws. And then expand them.