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 whole purpose of”useful “ disciplines is to get us to a point where we can appreciate beauty and experience love.
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More generally, where we can and are free to know.
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For law in particular: To practice conflict resolution and policy making, we must answer questions like: "What is important? What is fair? What do/should we value?" It's important to train the next generation of policymakers/arbiters.
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Good policy making is essential to permit science and technology to even exist and have the freedom it needs. Or how about art? Art is communication (not just fine art— media is art); the data channels that connect minds. It conveys not just facts, but also motivation.
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Using the word “useful” without context is useless.
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