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Climate change is a tricky one, in this context: it’s widely accepted, and supported by heaps of evidence. If I were to say that gravity doesn’t exist (eg in a
by tgv 5y ago
Climate change is a tricky one, in this context: it’s widely accepted, and supported by heaps of evidence. If I were to say that gravity doesn’t exist (eg in a discussion about dark matter), I suppose I’d be downvoted too.
Climate change is also highly politicized. That just makes it harder to tell the reason behind the downvotes, because chances are that other people see your comment as a way to push a (very dangerous) agenda. I’m that case, adapting the tone of the message can perhaps help, although -as I pointed out before- it doesn’t take much to reach the bottom score.
- deltaonefour 5y agoWhen men have realized that time has upset many fighting faiths ... We've been wrong on things like global warming before, and we're likely going to be wrong again. That the ultimate good desired is better reached by free trade and ideas. In light of that knowledge that we may be wrong, the best course of action, the safest course of action, is to go ahead and listen to the uncensored ideas of the other side.. even when we disagree that climate change is false. The best test of truth is the power of the thought to get itself accepted in the competition of the marketplace of ideas. Those are the ideas that we can safely act upon. Every year, if not every day, we have to wager our salvation upon some prophecy based on imperfect knowledge. That, at any rate, is the theory of our Constitution. It is an experiment, as all life is an experiment.