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<blockquote data-quote="Tom 1" data-source="post: 75237223" data-attributes="member: 404020"><p>I think the idea that the stated goals, the intent to avoid stirring up bad feeling about or towards any particular group it seems, are inherently good is a bit dubious. Not wanting to make anyone feel bad is a pretty superficial notion of morality, the ability to experience and work through difficult emotions is essential to developing any kind of maturity as a human. The vagueness of the whole project and the thinking behind it is difficult to quantify, any specific instances I've come across involve ideas like 'the past is bad' (with the obvious implication 'we are better') and so it should be dismissed (in favour of 'better' ideas) along with the publicly sanctioned use of pseudoscience to try to force people to accept things that are either demonstrably untrue or unknowable. At its root there is an attempt to make it impossible, or at a minimum sanction-able, for anyone to go through the process of forming opinions that are contrary to prevailing social norms, or even just to pose questions about those norms. I don't see how that can be seen as a good thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Tom 1, post: 75237223, member: 404020"] I think the idea that the stated goals, the intent to avoid stirring up bad feeling about or towards any particular group it seems, are inherently good is a bit dubious. Not wanting to make anyone feel bad is a pretty superficial notion of morality, the ability to experience and work through difficult emotions is essential to developing any kind of maturity as a human. The vagueness of the whole project and the thinking behind it is difficult to quantify, any specific instances I've come across involve ideas like 'the past is bad' (with the obvious implication 'we are better') and so it should be dismissed (in favour of 'better' ideas) along with the publicly sanctioned use of pseudoscience to try to force people to accept things that are either demonstrably untrue or unknowable. At its root there is an attempt to make it impossible, or at a minimum sanction-able, for anyone to go through the process of forming opinions that are contrary to prevailing social norms, or even just to pose questions about those norms. I don't see how that can be seen as a good thing. [/QUOTE]
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