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The 10 questions will get you banned/flagged/ousted from even normal conversation amongst friends or casual groups, of course people are not going to risk their
by Dig1t 2y ago
The 10 questions will get you banned/flagged/ousted from even normal conversation amongst friends or casual groups, of course people are not going to risk their professional reputations with them.
Discovering the truth of these questions is not really worth ruining your life.
Look at James Watson, even if you win a Nobel Prize, your career can still be ruined if you say the wrong thing.
- bluescrn 2y agoOf course, without heretics, we could still all believe in a geocentric universe, or even a flat Earth.
- iknowSFR 2y agoThis is one of the more wild social concepts that the modern age of social media has super charged. At its core: what’s the acceptable line between presenting counter-views versus heresy? And one level up: what’s the responsibility of the audience to consider any counter, even heresy? There are consequences in every choice.
- Capricorn2481 2y agoNot sure it is super charged at all considering many of these heretical figures were killed. I feel like it's easier than ever to have a fringe opinion. We're in a day and age where people unironically believe in Qanon
- stared 2y agoFrom "Kolmogorov Complicity And The Parable Of Lightning" (https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-and-the-parable-of-lightning/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...): "Did Giordano Bruno die for his astronomical discoveries or his atheism? False dichotomy: you can’t have a mind that questions the stars but never thinks to question the Bible. The best you can do is have a Bruno who questions both, but is savvy enough to know which questions he can get away with saying out loud. And the real Bruno wasn’t that savvy."
- dvfjsdhgfv 2y agoSpeaking your mind is something you can afford only once you already own a fortune, see e.g. all what is happening around J.K. Rowling.
- dj_gitmo 2y agoI am not against taboos. Taboos can be good. However, it can be a problem when what is considered taboo expands to encompass basically everything.
- bluescrn 2y agoIt’s fine for certain topics to be taboos in polite conversation around the family dinner table or at a social event. But in a professional setting, particularly amongst scientists and academics, it seems essential that difficult conversations can be had openly.
- bithive123 2y agoWhat you say is true, but tragic. What is a professional reputation worth if one ignores inconvenient truths? No opinion (however lay or erudite) is deeply serious if truth is less important than ego preservation. Any system of thought that disregards truth is ultimately incoherent and will produce nothing of real value.
- zug_zug 2y agoI think that self-censorship is practically universal and a core tenant of our social behavior. Somehow I think some group(s) of people have gotten it in their head that they are the only ones who have to self-censor and that they are a victim for it, but I think if you challenge yourself you can come up with hundreds of times self-censoring in social situations is the obviously correct choice (political or not). Think about it, from disallowing words like "hell", to talking about death, to discussing sex, to oversharing, there actually is a very small percentage of combinations of words that are appropriate conversation.
- riehwvfbk 2y agoI guess being a grammar Nazi is probably another thing that should be self-censored, but... it's "tenet", not a renter.