Stuart_Armstrong comments on Special Status Needs Special Support - Less Wrong

20 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 04 May 2009 10:59PM

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 05 May 2009 04:57:15PM *  3 points [-]

yet if you talked about Tolkien the way that Frank talked about Job, most people would write you down as a hopeless fanboy/fangirl...

Yet another reason for denying religion its special status: if we could just admit that most of humanity cares deeply for silly ideas, there'd be less tendancy to reject silly-sounding new concepts out of hand...