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This kind of reasoning has a certain universal appeal at first blush. Something deep about calling out the hypocrisy of those who profess to disdain the very thing they are co-opting. But it is a vacuous and illogical argument and subtracts meaning from the discussion at hand. The leap of assumption made here is long and unfortunately negative. We need to make value judgements to make sense out of reality. That is an…
It is neither vacuous nor illogical to point out the inherent internal contradiction in someone's proposal for how society ought to act. It only adds to the discussion to show that what seems on the surface like a nice idea is actually intrinsically illogical. That one dislikes the ramifications of the proposition being illogical is beside the point. What seems appealing at first blush is the superficial "just be nic…
It's clearly not intrinsically illogical. Societies of scientists demonstrate that it's possible to harness human instincts against human biases. In many societies of scientists, the perception that one is ready to accept they are wrong when collating new data trumps the natural ego driven desire to be recognized as "right."
While it is clearly far from perfect, it is undoubtedly effective. Likewise, there have been examples of societies and organizations that demonstrated effective self-awareness of out-grouping psychology. (Two were headed by Martin Luther King Jr. and Gandhi.)