(March 21, 2015 at 10:41 am)AFTT47 Wrote: Well I feel a lot safer knowing that Brian is on the case.
Please, why is everyone flipping out over a very simple statement. Dont take anyone's word for it, not even me. In laypersons terms "You know what happens when you assume, it makes an ass out of u and me."
If you are not applying that to science fiction, you are making the same mistake humans make with political ideology and religious ideology. I think it is never a good idea to go "that sounds nice" and do nothing to test it.
Again, you are allowing your evolutionary sense of fair play override the pragmatic side of how we gain a better understanding of all this. If we can use fucked up logic as a species on other issues, how do you think si fi is immune to that flaw?
Again, human rights is not my issue. "Don't assume" is pragmatic, nowhere is that saying "never".
There is a way to go about finding knowledge and a way not to. Anything outside that is nothing until testing acts on it. So not even with me, you do not have to take my word for it either.
