People hate things that contradict their deeply-held beliefs. But since ideas that contradict deeply-held beliefs are the most interesting (see the history of physics for example), anyone on the hunt for interesting ideas will tend to offend a lot of people.
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The difference between someone on the hunt for interesting ideas and a controversialist is that for the former, controversy is collateral damage. E.g. Darwin, who sat on natural selection for 15 years, no doubt partly because he feared the resulting controversy.
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There does seem to be something about the love of controversy that drives people on to find interesting ideas. Don't think it is always a commitment to truth-seeking.
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Yes, that's an interesting point. I don't think it's love of controversy per se, but there is a kind of naughtiness that helps a lot in the search for new ideas. E.g. Crick and Watson both had it.
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