Re:Why Is Joe Rogan So Popular?
by eesmith on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @10:09AM
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Because there is no such thing as impartially presenting a guest's ideas?
Because figuring out what is BS can be hard? (Look at all the people who believe in the BS that is Young Earth Creationism.)
Because it's not a thought-crime to decide to not cover certain topics?
Consider a discussion about the need for forced participation in human experimentation, like deliberately freezing unwilling prisoners in experiments with the goal of discovering new means to prevent and treat hypothermia.
If someone wants to present that, and is denied, is that denial an enforcement of thought-crime? Is it possible to present that impartially, and what would that look like? Is it meaningful to present those ideas without also bringing up the history of unethical human experimentation, and the reasons for deciding what is ethical? Can it not be that the 'mainstream viewpoint' is actually the ethical one, and strongly opposed ones deeply unethical?
Because figuring out what is BS can be hard? (Look at all the people who believe in the BS that is Young Earth Creationism.)
Because it's not a thought-crime to decide to not cover certain topics?
Consider a discussion about the need for forced participation in human experimentation, like deliberately freezing unwilling prisoners in experiments with the goal of discovering new means to prevent and treat hypothermia.
If someone wants to present that, and is denied, is that denial an enforcement of thought-crime? Is it possible to present that impartially, and what would that look like? Is it meaningful to present those ideas without also bringing up the history of unethical human experimentation, and the reasons for deciding what is ethical? Can it not be that the 'mainstream viewpoint' is actually the ethical one, and strongly opposed ones deeply unethical?