“teach them that they have no right to an opinion.”
I know people throw the term around (I try not to), but this is maybe the most fascist thing I’ve seen on this board. They have no right to an opinion? You might want to rephrase this, as many of my opinions are somewhat involuntary.
Annoyance, you’re still dodging the question. Joe didn’t ask whether or not in your opinion everyone is a useless prole, he asked why it’s useful to make people feel like that. Your notion that “social cohesion is the enemy of rationality” was best debunked, I think by pjeby’s point here:
http://lesswrong.com/lw/za/a_social_norm_against_unjustified_opinions/rrk
more flies with honey and all that.