CronoDAS comments on The problem with too many rational memes - Less Wrong

80 Post author: Swimmer963 19 January 2012 12:56AM

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Comment author: Swimmer963 18 January 2012 12:55:11PM 2 points [-]

If you'd become a Born Again Christian, for instance, you'd probably be facing similar problems.

Yeah, but at least they can stick up to it, as a community, in a way I don't find obnoxious. I really don't like the atheism campaigns of people like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens...they just rub me the wrong way. I don't know why.

Comment author: CronoDAS 20 January 2012 10:40:55PM *  4 points [-]

Christopher Hitchens was basically the pre-Internet equivalent of a troll. He worked very hard at rubbing people the wrong way. (Someone like that can often be very entertaining to watch, as on the TV show House, but it's not fun to be the target of that kind of thing.)

Comment author: David_Gerard 21 January 2012 12:18:34AM 3 points [-]

Literate ones are called contrarians.

Comment author: CronoDAS 21 January 2012 12:48:16AM 4 points [-]

Actually, I think the term might be gadfly...