RE: Make stupidity illegal
August 28, 2014 at 4:37 pm
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2014 at 4:40 pm by ManMachine.)
(August 28, 2014 at 3:27 pm)bladevalant546 Wrote: I believe in the freedom of speech and thought. However, at what point should we tolerate stupidity? When I see countless comments how global warming is fake, wanting free education or healthcare to stimulate and maximize education and health makes you immoral, or how I.C.E cars are going to be replaced by EVs are a pipe dream. When the defense of those ideals are because the GOP or some conservative talking point/shills say so. How much of that should we actually tolerate? I am finding that allowing stupidity to breed is doing more harm that good.
Even though the average temperature of the Earth is rising, this is, as the statement points out, an average and that this 'average' rise can also lead to localised cooling in some parts of the world due to a process called 'thermohaline circulation'. While it is not exactly fake, 'global warming' is a phrase used to describe a generalised characteristic of global temperatures and not the actual issues we are likely to face in our own local climates.
The philosophy behind environmental issues is not openly debated often enough, unfortunately the political debate got stuck on the 'fake'/'not fake' issue for too long and now it seems the philosophical debate has got obfuscated by the politics. Philosophically there is still a very important debate to be had;
Should we be attempting to perpetuate the conditions optimal for our mass survival, continue overpopulating the planet and depleting its finite resources?
Evolution, after all, tells us this is folly and that environmental pressure will ultimately drive mutation and change or extinct us completely as it has done (or will do) with every single species that has occupied this planet. Evolution has not marked humanity out as a 'species worth keeping', you can bet the farm on that. Any hope that we can reform and act with global unity flies in the face of everything we know about human history.
These, from what I can see, are the matter of the debate that needs to be had.
Stupidity is not taking the 'wrong' side in an argument, it's failing to question the premise of the entire proposition and blindly buying into the preconceptions that the controlling agencies in this world with a vested interest in the status-quo (i.e. government, business and organised crime) need us to.
MM
"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" - Leonardo da Vinci
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
"I think I use the term “radical” rather loosely, just for emphasis. If you describe yourself as “atheist,” some people will say, “Don’t you mean ‘agnostic’?” I have to reply that I really do mean atheist, I really do not believe that there is a god; in fact, I am convinced that there is not a god (a subtle difference). I see not a shred of evidence to suggest that there is one ... etc., etc. It’s easier to say that I am a radical atheist, just to signal that I really mean it, have thought about it a great deal, and that it’s an opinion I hold seriously." - Douglas Adams (and I echo the sentiment)
