Benito comments on Rationality Quotes Thread February 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Benito 05 February 2015 07:02:49PM *  9 points [-]

On the dispersing of memes (note: politicised).

The reason that millions of people read books about Islam (even if they don't believe in it) instead of studying Cosmology is that cosmologist don't go around blowing up train stations, turning school girls into sex slaves, executing cartoonists, and crashing airplanes into skyscrapers. The reason why we are having a worldwide discussion about one of the most ridiculous superstitions in the history of humankind (to depict or not to depict a man who lived in the 7th century) is that people get killed because of that superstition.

-Piero Scaruffi

Comment author: Username 06 February 2015 11:29:33AM 10 points [-]

cosmologist don't go around blowing up train stations

First thing I thought at this point was "Oh! Maybe we should," then I remembered that I'm not aware of anybody who's studied mathematics thanks to Ted Kaczynski.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 06 February 2015 02:46:35PM 11 points [-]

Also, you know, blowing up train stations.

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