Jeremy Stangroom @PhilosophyExp
Blimey, online warriors don’t half love the frisson of collective outrage. My advice is be deeply suspicious of it (and them).
I figure that’s about Ofek and DN Lee and Scientific American, if only because Stangroom monitors Freethought blogs and especially mine so closely. But then why would it be necessary to be deeply suspicious of outrage about it? Why is it wrong to be outraged about it?
Because of the putative love of the putative frisson, I suppose. But then he doesn’t know that, he’s just claiming it. And even if he’s right about it, or right in some cases, so what? What difference does it make? What difference does it make, … Read the rest
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