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| Aug 20, 2020 at 12:28 | comment | added | user145520 | @StanleyYaoXiao the mentality exhibited here is more like "any point of view is potentially valid unless the opposite has been rigorously established" | |
| Aug 20, 2020 at 12:19 | comment | added | Stanley Yao Xiao | The mentality that "all points of view are valid" is a logical fallacy that a mathematician of all people should not commit. | |
| Aug 20, 2020 at 0:59 | comment | added | fedja | @HailongDao "Once ideologies start to trump science, there is no incentive to not degenerate into accusation, shaming and ostracization." You mean "no incentive offered by the society as a whole"? Maybe, but you are a also a free individual who can make choices and the "society as a whole" is not the only entity that can offer "incentives", though it is a rather powerful one as far as rewards and punishments are concerned. But, of course, if too many people are eager to act out of "incentives to degenerate", we'd better discuss nothing controversial. I just don't think it is the case. | |
| Aug 20, 2020 at 0:44 | comment | added | Hailong Dao | Once ideologies start to trump science, there is no incentive to not degenerate into accusation, shaming and ostracization. In fact, the opposite is true. | |
| Aug 19, 2020 at 21:45 | history | answered | fedja | CC BY-SA 4.0 |