Re:Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate...
by gnaritas on Friday February 28, 2014 @07:52AM
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Keep your idol worship to yourself; pg is not the authority on how disagreement should work, he's a VC for tech companies, not the authoritative source on how things should be. I happen to agree with the Hitchens approach of mocking religious ignorance and don't give a crap about being reasonable about it. I don't care about pg's tests. Debate is not relevant and only lends status to non-sense. Mockery is the appropriate response to evolution deniers, not reasoned debate. You cannot reason someone out a position they were not reasoned into.
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Re:Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate...
by argumentum on Friday February 28, 2014 @02:55PM
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I don't think you have a clue about Christopher Hitchens (who I actually quoted in this thread: "don't take refuge in the false security of consensus").
Perhaps you should read more of what he wrote, and watch the dozens of debates he conducted with priests, rabbis etc. Of course, you can use ridicule in an argument, but you cannot put yourself above the debate (or you will lose).
Re:Yellen on Bitcoin: Fed Doesn’t Have Authority to Regulate...
by gnaritas on Friday February 28, 2014 @04:42PM
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Perhaps it's you who don't have a clue. Perhaps you should read more of what he wrote, and watch the dozens of debates he conducted with priests, rabbis etc, because I already have. Listen to the man himself[1] on the importance of mocking religion.