Some ideas are good and some are bad even if it is also true that if one wants to be appreciated for those ideas one must find a receptive audience.
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Immunotherapy for eliminating cancer is a really good idea, for example. Drinking and driving is a bad idea.
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If I were to write books about why it is a good idea to not combine drinking and driving, I'd probably waste everybody's time. It is a good idea in the normative sense, but a an utterly trivial idea in the intellectual sense.
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IMO the word 'good' has to refer to a particular time and context or it's an invalid use of the world. It's a word like 'bright' or 'convincable' or 'hilarious' (i.e. an adjective), I personally feel that there are lots of objective things to say about adjectives
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I wonder if we are related, Matt. Giammarino is my grandmother's maiden name.
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