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Comment author: EHeller 30 March 2014 04:27:58AM 1 point [-]

Have you seen any of these people on mainstream fora? The reason these people seem so common is that you're per-filtering your internet browsing to sites that strongly value truth.

I see these people in my everyday life all the time. I think that the edge internet contrarians don't realize their views are held as common sense by fairly large sections of the population.

Comment author: [deleted] 30 March 2014 08:24:43PM 2 points [-]

I suspect there are many fewer such people in places where said edge internet contrarians live (e.g. New England or the Bay Area) than elsewhere.

(I've never been to New England nor to the Bay Area, so take this with a huge grain of salt.)