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People think that scientists go out on TV to scare them. They think that if the scientists tell them what they want to hear instead of what the reality of the s

People think that scientists go out on TV to scare them. They think that if the scientists tell them what they want to hear instead of what the reality of the situation actually is, Reality will bend over and do as people want and expect from it. But Reality doesn't do that and people just can't understand this. It's just common stupidity.

tonfreed 5y ago
Part of the problem is that these people don't like being treated like idiots, and we've now got governments all over the west talking down to them and denying them the right to earn a livelihood, and a bunch of inner city midwits with useless degrees very openly calling for their exclusion from society or even genocide in some corners of Twitter. There is a very loud lack of respect from all sides of the equation.
- sto_hristo 5y ago
  I don't like to be treated like the next ordinary person. I want to be treated like the royalty i wish i am. So get on with it? Remove the people with the "useless degrees" and you'd be left with shamans, witch doctors and a pathetic existence that can be ended on a whim by any civilization that kept its own people with the "useless degrees." That is what happened to natives in the Americas when the European touched their shores. Their demise was trivial. Not even with modern WMDs can you wipe off whole populations across whole continents that easy. So if these people don't like to be treated idiots, they better stop acting like idiots.
  - tonfreed 5y ago
    This is exactly the kind of attitude I'm talking about. You're pushing people to the edge of society and calling on the government to take away everything they have and still expecting them to fall into line. There's going to be a VERY angry, VERY desperate underclass that's going to overrun to indolent elite in society if they keep going down this arrogant path.

tonfreed 5y ago

Part of the problem is that these people don't like being treated like idiots, and we've now got governments all over the west talking down to them and denying them the right to earn a livelihood, and a bunch of inner city midwits with useless degrees very openly calling for their exclusion from society or even genocide in some corners of Twitter. There is a very loud lack of respect from all sides of the equation.

sto_hristo 5y ago
I don't like to be treated like the next ordinary person. I want to be treated like the royalty i wish i am. So get on with it? Remove the people with the "useless degrees" and you'd be left with shamans, witch doctors and a pathetic existence that can be ended on a whim by any civilization that kept its own people with the "useless degrees." That is what happened to natives in the Americas when the European touched their shores. Their demise was trivial. Not even with modern WMDs can you wipe off whole populations across whole continents that easy. So if these people don't like to be treated idiots, they better stop acting like idiots.
- tonfreed 5y ago
  This is exactly the kind of attitude I'm talking about. You're pushing people to the edge of society and calling on the government to take away everything they have and still expecting them to fall into line. There's going to be a VERY angry, VERY desperate underclass that's going to overrun to indolent elite in society if they keep going down this arrogant path.