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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 23 May 2011 03:44:55AM 2 points [-]

offensive to vocal members.

I fail to see what's wrong with this.

Even greater than the tendency towards autism on lesswrong is the tendency toward idealism. Idealists don't tend to like having their illusions shattered and our illusions about the social behavior of our own species are something that many take personally.

You've identified a serious problem. Unfortunately, your solution appears to be abandoning our search for truth because some members can't handle the truth. The above statement is equally true with 'idealist' replaced by 'theist' and yet we don't have a problem with talking about atheism.

Comment author: DanArmak 24 May 2011 02:55:24PM 0 points [-]

The above statement is equally true with 'idealist' replaced by 'theist' and yet we don't have a problem with talking about atheism.

It's not equally true, because LW members do not have a tendency towards theism.

Comment author: Eugine_Nier 24 May 2011 08:44:01PM 1 point [-]

That's because almost all the potential theist members have been driven away by the fact that we don't try to accommodate their mistakes, I'm suggesting taking the same attitude towards 'idealists' as wedrifid calls them.

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