ext_48536 ([identity profile] peristaltor.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2012-11-29 09:13 pm (UTC)

Nope. Child molesters do not deny the existence of model rocketeers, or attack model rocketeers, or insinuate that model rocketeers are somehow undermining the very fabric of society. That tension absolutely exists between YE Creationists and Natural Selectionists, between Ptolemaniacs and Copernicans, between Neo-classical economists and alternative schools like MMT and Post-Keynsean.

Your perspective frames my post into, "I don't like his views; therefore he's wrong. I must ask why he is a poopyhead."

I am coming at this from a completely different angle, essentially asking, "What he believes has been time and time again disproven, shown to be factually inaccurate, and as a theory—ie. model for organizing data in useful and especially in predictive manners—inferior in every way to stuff that actually works. I must ask myself what possible motive he has for adhering to his beliefs."

When one takes the psychology of hard-wired and reflexive disgust into account, some light is shed on this conundrum.

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