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Comment author: CellBioGuy 06 January 2014 02:19:47AM *  11 points [-]

Any community that claims to be based on 'rationality' runs an extremely high risk of inappropriately automatically labeling opposing arguments to their in-group assessment as irrational and dismissing them as irrelevant. They themselves are inevitably irrational and will make the mistake.

Comment author: ESRogs 06 January 2014 07:24:34PM 5 points [-]

I'm not sure I understand your comment, is the "they themselves" referring to people in the 'rational' community or outside it?

Comment author: CellBioGuy 09 January 2014 12:15:53AM 0 points [-]

The former.