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Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by mcguire on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:14PM (#25959685)
On the other hand, many people who reason from first principles fall into two fallacies:

First, they believe that their system is how the world should work, and therefore how it would work if only someone, somewhere, weren't interfering. The result is conspiracy theories.

Second, they have not fully thought out the consequences, or don't care about them, and dismiss the historical consequences of similar systems in the past. Reasoning with people who ignore evidence in favor of their theorizing is difficult.

Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by andrewprock on Friday January 29, 2021 @12:51PM (#25960158)
I can only applaud this succinct diagnosis of the difficulty in dealing with online debate.
Re:Statement of SEC Regarding Recent Market Volatility by pas on Friday January 29, 2021 @01:38PM (#25960704)
Offline debates tend to be even worse. You usually don't have time to read it at your pace, whoever talks to you will keep making sounds, etc.