(March 21, 2015 at 1:37 pm)Brian37 Wrote: How do you get from "don't simply swallow a claim" to "you want to outlaw making the claim"?
And here is the crux of the problem. You are the only one who thinks works of fiction are making real claims. It's fiction. You know, made up stories. Falsehoods packaged as entertainment. Yet you assert the authors of such works are making actual scientific claims.
Guess what, as an author (aspiring to publication at this point), I find your accusation that I am making unsupported claims about how the real world works offensive. I'm not. But, if I want to tell a story about a galaxy spanning commercial civilization then faster than light travel becomes a necessity of the story. At this point, it doesn't matter if the basis for my FTL is plausible (some form of warping space) or completely implausible (Doug Adams' "probability drive" springs to mind) as long as it's internally consistent with the story. You know. All the other made up bits.
Why you have such a problem with authors speculating about what the future might hold is beyond me. If it's just because some deluded fool might grab some part of it and create a religion, well, that can happen based on any work of fiction. So, for the third time, what would you have us do about it?!?
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