People failing to see degrees of a problem, is a problem. But notice that you’ve identified hatred of ideas, though unfairly exaggerated, and not hatred of people, or even attributing malicious intent.
Even Hayek, who had some of that all or nothing attitude, didn’t even attribute malicious intent to Socialists, to whom he dedicated The Road to Serfdom.
Me, I’ve started to question intent more closely, as I see the theocratic impulse to force others to live by your values as one of the worst possible intents.
Or at least the Road to Serfdom.
People failing to see degrees of a problem, is a problem. But notice that you’ve identified hatred of ideas, though unfairly exaggerated, and not hatred of people, or even attributing malicious intent.
Even Hayek, who had some of that all or nothing attitude, didn’t even attribute malicious intent to Socialists, to whom he dedicated The Road to Serfdom.
Me, I’ve started to question intent more closely, as I see the theocratic impulse to force others to live by your values as one of the worst possible intents.