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It's not that much of a fallacy. What if you come to a socially unnaceptable conclusion about some ethnicity or culture after too much study? If you are a softw
by thatguy0900 5y ago
It's not that much of a fallacy. What if you come to a socially unnaceptable conclusion about some ethnicity or culture after too much study? If you are a software dev that poses a significant risk to your job and social life.
- heavenlyblue 5y ago> What if you come to a socially unnaceptable conclusion about some ethnicity or culture after too much study? If you are a software dev that poses a significant risk to your job and social life. What’s the difference between being silent about I because you don’t know it and being silent about it because you know you will be judged for it? It’s the equivalent argument for “Turn it off” in the Book of Mormon.
- thatguy0900 5y agoIt is very hard and obnoxious to consistently lie about your core beliefs in a group forever. It will foster resentment to be surrounded by people who openly mock or hate your opinion while you know you must remain silent. It is a very different situation to being neutral on it or agreeing with those people.
- Levitz 5y agoWhat good is it to think by oneself if it isn't to arrive to views that wouldn't be given to you by society? If you are right and society is wrong, then you stand a chance to correct an enormous mistake. If you are wrong and society is right, it is by people like you who argue against common tenets that they become hard to argue against. It's not worth it on a personal level, but very few things short of running for a position are worth it politically on a personal level, it is only on a societal level that they make sense.