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Originally Posted by filtherton
No it's not. When you are speaking about entire schools of thought, like economics, or medical science, or physics, or any system of ideas which evolves with respect to reality, being up to date is important.
It isn't the only way to evaluate an idea, but it certainly isn't silly.
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Ideas can de-evolve, too. Schools of thought can worsen. Reality can worsen. It's a total crapshoot as evaluations go.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
you seem to be under the mistaken impression that it's necessary for others to take your false equivalence seriously.
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You seem to be under the mistaken impression that it's necessary for others to take your uninformative jab seriously.
Guyy didn't provide me much more than "I don't like people who side with racists". It's not a false equivalence. At least not until guyy elaborates with more.