This is because you see a different approach to tackling bad ideas. You think trying to limit their spread more effective than addressing, refuting embarrassing them. I think we're doomed if intellectuals &academics stop addressing them in universities & its left to online debate https://twitter.com/Daniel_Rivieria/status/946014894926700544 …
I don't find this to be so. I find that very few people are totally committed to a tribe and most can be reached if you know how to do it. I wrote a thing on this but Areo is undergoing a facelift at the moment so I can't link it.
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I defer to your experience, then. I largely live in an ivory tower (although not the traditional one) with people who have signed on to have their ideas changed. My experience outside is limited to those so stubborn they can't be persuaded.
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I think ideas subtly shift from watching. If you see ideas you once respected made to look unethical and unreasonable, you might move away from those ideas even if its just a little. Modify them. Qualify them. Even trying to rationalise them involves some qualification
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I believe this, too, at my core. It's a good reminder not to let political cynicism eat away at it!
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