Tetronian comments on NYC Rationalist Community - Less Wrong

17 Post author: Cosmos 29 March 2010 04:59PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 01 April 2010 03:02:52PM 1 point [-]

I'm guessing that the woman wasn't being disruptive, since PZ Myers (who never ignores a chance to bash his opponents) didn't explicitly say so--he just said that she asked a dumb question. In that case, the booing was extremely inappropriate. However, I see it as indicative of a larger phenomenon: atheists (and perhaps rationalists) developing a sort of group identity. This could very well be a bad thing because group identity often leads to groupthink and rationalization.