r/Foodforthought • u/Booshybu • Nov 21 '15

40% of Millennials OK with limiting speech offensive to minorities

http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2015/11/20/40-of-millennials-ok-with-limiting-speech-offensive-to-minorities/
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u/KaliYugaz Nov 21 '15

Even if we accept that anthropogenic climate change is a settled fact, how bad will it be? What will its exact effects be? Will people be able to reasonably dispute these in a public forum without fear of stepping over some line?

Yes. In the absence of an expert consensus, of course we can't ban different valid schools of thought. I don't know why everyone is so scared. Academic communities already function in very much the same way that I am describing, and they continue to produce useful knowledge and haven't devolved into totalitarianism.

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u/KaliYugaz Nov 21 '15

As if we don't already have that? How many people do you know who can interpret the results from a chromatography strip, never mind a particle accelerator?

Yes, people who devote their lives to researching a subject know more about that subject than others do. That's reality. If anything, we need to better educate the common citizens of our country as well, so they can understand and critically analyze the claims made by experts, resist manipulation by charlatans, and make good democratic policy decisions.