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A friend of mine once remarked that it's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out. In a world with almost seven billion people, the
by sethg 18y ago
A friend of mine once remarked that it's good to have an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
In a world with almost seven billion people, there are many folks who believe that Darwinian evolution is a fraud, or that 9/11 was actually a Mossad plot, or that astronauts never actually landed on the moon, or that Henri Philippe Pierre Marie d'Orléans should be the absolute monarch of France. I see no reason to waste my time giving these "theories" the attention required to even refute them.
I don't care how much of a bold and contrarian and politically incorrect thinker you are--at some point you have to draw a line and say that certain ideas deserve to be ridiculed because they are, well, ridiculous.
- Raplh 18y agoSure, you can't evaluate every dingdong idea. But when you find one you are going to skip, you can either do so respectfully, or you can declare to everyone around you that even in the absence of any thought on the matter, you happen to know (how?) that this is just wrong and BS and worthless. Sure its frustrating when you stop trashing all the ideas you reject. But it has some good results too. Like you get a more realistic idea of how limited what you know (vs what you think) is.