Open thread, June. 19 - June. 25, 2017

Elo

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some people ... are in a risk of going too far

Sure, but that's true of most every human activity under the sun (including "games with nature").

you may kill the competent people and make the market illegal

Knowing NOT to do this is in no way dependent on knowing how to grow wheat or bake bread.

believing e.g. that "objective reality does not exist and everything is socially constructed" seems like a royal road to insanity

I agree, but here the difference between beliefs and aliefs becomes important. Besides, physical reality has a habit of rudely intruding into social constructs and if you still insist on ignoring it, well, you might be in line for a Darwin Award.