Creationists lie. Homeopaths lie. Anti-vaxxers lie. This is part of the Great Circle of Life. It is not necessary to call out every lie by a creationist, because the sort of person who is still listening to creationists is not the sort of person who is likely to be moved by call-outs. There is a role for organized action against creationists, like preventing them from getting their opinions taught in schools, but the marginal blog post “debunking” a creationist on something is a waste of time. Everybody who wants to discuss things rationally has already formed a walled garden and locked the creationists outside of it.
This was a very useful insight, I think I had realised it a while ago but didn’t thought it explicitly yet.
Generally the post is pretty good. I think another key point of how civilisation evolved is that the “smarter than you” guy who just goes “hey, I can refuse to play by the rule if I’m effective enough, this way I’ll get an even bigger advantage and be unstoppable, I’m just going to blitzkrieg these schmucks and take everything over” regularly gets ganged up and beaten to the ground by everyone else.
Julius Caesar, Hitler, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, possibly Alexander the Great… the great conquerors who try to impose a new world order seem to either regularly be beaten by an alliance of fed up people or murdered if they don’t go down that way, and I think most of them didn’t honestly saw how their “screw everything, I’ll just play to win” scheme could possibly backfire.
It seems humans, when someone goes “screw the rules”, tend to answer with “well, screw you too”.
This was a very useful insight, I think I had realised it a while ago but didn’t thought it explicitly yet.
Generally the post is pretty good. I think another key point of how civilisation evolved is that the “smarter than you” guy who just goes “hey, I can refuse to play by the rule if I’m effective enough, this way I’ll get an even bigger advantage and be unstoppable, I’m just going to blitzkrieg these schmucks and take everything over” regularly gets ganged up and beaten to the ground by everyone else.
Julius Caesar, Hitler, Napoleon, Genghis Khan, possibly Alexander the Great… the great conquerors who try to impose a new world order seem to either regularly be beaten by an alliance of fed up people or murdered if they don’t go down that way, and I think most of them didn’t honestly saw how their “screw everything, I’ll just play to win” scheme could possibly backfire.
It seems humans, when someone goes “screw the rules”, tend to answer with “well, screw you too”.