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5 Post author: PhilGoetz 01 December 2010 08:45PM

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Comment author: Desrtopa 01 December 2010 11:00:04PM 4 points [-]

Not to ones that they themselves suspect are wrong, if that's what you mean. But it's hard to signal high intellectual status while expressing the same beliefs as all of your peers, so if you want to signal, you have a motive to find a point of disagreement.