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> For the right to speak involves the duty to listen. The right to criticize involves the responsibility of giving "the other side" a fair chance to make its po
by animal_spirits 5y ago
> For the right to speak involves the duty to listen. The right to criticize involves the responsibility of giving
"the other side" a fair chance to make its point.
I wish this could be chiseled in rock somewhere prominent
- ARandomerDude 5y agoIt would be spray painted then the legislature would vote to remove it.
- RHSeeger 5y agoI love the idea of this, but it also plays poorly with > Brandolini's law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage that emphasizes the difficulty of debunking false, facetious, or otherwise misleading information: "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it." But I guess, to be fair, giving the other sides a fair chance to make it's point doesn't mean you need to provably debunk it if it's wrong.
- shijie 5y agoThis just seems like a rather clever permutation of ad hominem. “The reason I won’t refute your argument is that it is so incorrect that it would take me forever to explain why.”
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- robgibbons 5y agoNot really. Ad hominem is directing the subject of your argument at the person instead of their ideas. Brandolini's law is more like the adage, "a lie can travel halfway around the world, while the truth is lacing up its boots." It's very easy to spout correct-sounding lies in such a volume that countering them becomes an academic challenge.
- RHSeeger 5y agoYou're looking at it wrong. It's that there is so much bull out there that it would be impossible to refute it all.
- wrycoder 5y agoOr as Pauli said, "Not even wrong."
- Jkol 5y agoCan't be that hard or expensive, let's make it happen
- wrycoder 5y agoWell, go for it!