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It's a norm not a law. Be open to a broad array of viewpoints and opinions, as a general rule. It makes you a better human being.
by jimbokun 5y ago
It's a norm not a law.
Be open to a broad array of viewpoints and opinions, as a general rule. It makes you a better human being.
- tptacek 5y agoIt's an aspirational norm, but it's nobody's practiced norm; virtually everybody has lines they draw. So what does it tell us that we can aspire to having that norm? I'd argue: not much.
- jimbokun 5y agoThe extent to which a society aspires to this norm has a great effect on the extent to which that society flourishes and prospers.
- tptacek 5y agoThen we've clearly flourished throughout the 20th century in spit of it and not because of it.
- hanselot 5y ago
- akvadrako 5y agoYou are saying we shouldn't be open? That will surely lead to never ending conflict.
- tptacek 5y agoI can't even figure out how to connect your response to what I wrote, so I can't possibly do any good by trying to reply to it.
- akvadrako 5y agoThe thread is about the norm "be open". Seems like you're saying society flourished in spite of having that norm.
- tptacek 5y agoI'm saying that society hasn't consistently had that norm, and flourished anyways, so the supposed norm is probably not as causative as it's being made out to be.
- jimbokun 5y agoThe countries that better practiced this norm in the 20th century flourished more than those who practiced it less.
- tptacek 5y agoReally? China? Thailand? Singapore? I feel bad being argumentative, but I think what you're saying actually isn't true.
- klyrs 5y agoMy opinion is that Joe Dingleberry* should shut up, because I've already heard his opinion and find it uninteresting. Are you open to my opinion, or just Joe's? * name changed to protect the uninteresting