How to Think: Daniel Dennett @danieldennett wants hereditarianism to be caricatured, misrepresented, and strawmannedpic.twitter.com/O8tz8Wbrd6
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Dennett's Razor: fine to persecute hereditarians, just don't do it to me and my pals Dawkins and Pinker
@gregstevenspic.twitter.com/gqqsVHt5KT
I think you should take this as a hypothetical discussion, not advocacy of censorship for dangerous ideas.
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Not hypothetical: "I don't challenge their (Gould/Lewontin et al) motives or their tactics" (tactics = misrepresentation, caricature etc)
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also note his own tactic: leave nameless the victims of these tactics, except those few he objects to being victims whom he names
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My reading is that he's just agreeing with the moral argument for censorship from a utilitarian perspective.
End of conversation
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