Had a student in class today ask if I believed in astrology. Told them that folks are free to believe what they’d like, and if they’re interested in it for entertainment than go for it, but just recognize there’s zero evidence for it comporting to reality.
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Wondering now if that seemingly friendly, nonjudgmental answer kind of gives cover to a predatory industry.
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The influence of astrology in India is enormous. Politics, business, construction, daily life. This is not good.
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It feels like with a lot of people, whether they do it for fun, or seriously believe it, or try to profit from it, depends on who's asking and what the convenient answer is.
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People are free to believe in meaningless classifications of people by their time of birth, but I don't think they get to act put upon when people resent being categorized by arbitrary shit
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That's really the balancing act of skepticism, though? Where "not being shitty about people's harmless fantasies that give them comfort/joy" rubs against "yes, but a lot of this is empirically harmful on a societal level, and that needs addressing."
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