You don't get it? Isn't that how this whole thing started? ;) My picture is not that involved. The whole elevators dispute seems to be getting portrayed as a black and white issue. I tend to see it as one of many intersecting interests and views, based on subjective values - hence the Venn diagram picture. If we start treating others as beyond the pale based on their particular subjective values then we are going to end up with a very small number who share the 'correct' viewpoint.
If we start treating others as beyond the pale based on their particular subjective values then we are going to end up with a very small number who share the 'correct' viewpoint.
It's the time of the Gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last. In the end, there can be only one with the most correct views... the Skeptic Highlander.
Friday: Hili dialogue
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Welcome to the tail end of the week: Friday, August 8, 2025, and National
Mochi Day. Although it’s a day of cultural appropriation, I happen to love
mochi,...
Thank you
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This is my last post for the Bad Astronomy Blog on Discover Magazine. As of
today – Monday, November 12, 2012 – the blog has a new home at Slate
magazine...
3 comments:
I Don't Get It
You don't get it?
Isn't that how this whole thing started? ;)
My picture is not that involved. The whole elevators dispute seems to be getting portrayed as a black and white issue. I tend to see it as one of many intersecting interests and views, based on subjective values - hence the Venn diagram picture. If we start treating others as beyond the pale based on their particular subjective values then we are going to end up with a very small number who share the 'correct' viewpoint.
If we start treating others as beyond the pale based on their particular subjective values then we are going to end up with a very small number who share the 'correct' viewpoint.
It's the time of the Gathering, when the few who remain will battle to the last. In the end, there can be only one with the most correct views... the Skeptic Highlander.
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