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Comment author: Richard_Hollerith2 09 June 2008 05:52:32PM 1 point [-]

What is the point of being a "truth-seeker"?

If you are not an avid truth-seeker, then please do not do scientific research or develop new technologies and please do not become a cultural leader or innovator and please do not participate in serious public discourse about law, economics, politics or education because it takes a keener ability to distinguish truth from falsehood than most people have just to avoid unknowingly doing evil in those pursuits.