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Re:On Saving the World and Other Delusions by user7923489 on Sunday March 29, 2015 @08:43PM (#9287106)
If even politicians are unable to differentiate extremism in thought experiments and science vs. actual action, then how bad must it be among the general population? Doesn't that consideration justify placing certain things under a taboo?
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Re:On Saving the World and Other Delusions by eli_gottlieb on Monday March 30, 2015 @09:47AM (#9289433)
>If even politicians are unable to differentiate extremism in thought experiments and science vs. actual action, then how bad must it be among the general population?

What do you mean, even? Politicians are much worse than the general population at ever admitting to thinking clearly: their chief occupation is righteousness signaling.

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