I hate the tendency to accuse ppl of hero-worship rather than address the reasons the person is arguing someone else to be right.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
We see a lot of this. X: Y made a good point about this - *explains good point* Z: You worship Y! He's your God/hero/leader!
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In fact, someone might admire Y because he thinks Y consistently makes good points or he might disagree with Y on almost everything else.
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I see this most with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris - people being told their views are invalidated by the fact they cited either 1 of them.
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I was once accused of thinking Peter Boghossian was God coz I quoted him a lot whilst correcting someone misrepresenting Street Epistemology
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Mostly I object to ppl assigning a whole collection of values to ppl based on one thing they said. These ppl are usually tribal themselves.
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I used to be part of a moral community who did this & got sick of an expectation to approve & disapprove specific sets of ppl & ideas.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It took a while tho. I feel the tribal impulse. I like belonging somewhere and things being simple.
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