if you tried to eliminate it completely it would probably make you seem stupid and crazy
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Aesthetics are great and all it’s just not guaranteed that what’s cool in any given community is actually what’s true or good.
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yes and this is a lot more important/powerful than arguments (which are also bad)
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Did you see that tumblr post I linked a while back about how owning idiots is morally obligatory
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I’m lazy to grab the link so I’ll just restate it :
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Premises
1: what people believe affects what they do
2: what people hear commonly said affects what they believe
3: what people say responds to incentives
4: mockery is a stronger disincentive to speech than argument
Therefore: it is moral to mock people for saying dumb things
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Do people who changed their mind about something important ever cite mockery as a reason why?
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introspectively I can totally see this
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