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Comment by WarmWash

18 days ago

Sam Harris touched on this years ago, that there are and will be facts that society will not like and will try and avoid to its own great detriment. So it's high time we start practicing nuance and understanding. You cannot fully solve a problem if you don't fully understand it first.

I believe we are headed in the direction opposite that. Peer consensus and "personal preference" as a catch-all are the validation go-to's today. Neither of those require fact at all; reason and facts make these harder to hold.