Fanatics of any stripe, be they gun nuts, cryptocurrency nuts, or "trans" activists are indistinguishably unreasonable. The latter have Medium at their beck and call.
I agree about fanatics but there is a difference in firmly held beliefs and fanaticism. The trouble is that the dividing line is not firmly defined and we sometimes see people who have a different worldview as fanatics.
Even firmly held beliefs should succumb to strong factual evidence. A fanatic is someone who won't listen to evidence at all.
Take Laffer economics; a perfect record of failure, except for a tiny margin around 70% taxation (which we haven't had since Eisenhower) and a small decrease actually stimulates, yet universities are loaded with tenured economists teaching this rubbish because the billionaires like it.
This Rob person says that a man who says who identifies as a woman is a woman and anyone disagreeing is "transphobic." That's seven miles down the road from stupid. That isn't a strongly held belief.
Fanatics of any stripe, be they gun nuts, cryptocurrency nuts, or "trans" activists are indistinguishably unreasonable. The latter have Medium at their beck and call.
I agree about fanatics but there is a difference in firmly held beliefs and fanaticism. The trouble is that the dividing line is not firmly defined and we sometimes see people who have a different worldview as fanatics.
Even firmly held beliefs should succumb to strong factual evidence. A fanatic is someone who won't listen to evidence at all.
Take Laffer economics; a perfect record of failure, except for a tiny margin around 70% taxation (which we haven't had since Eisenhower) and a small decrease actually stimulates, yet universities are loaded with tenured economists teaching this rubbish because the billionaires like it.
This Rob person says that a man who says who identifies as a woman is a woman and anyone disagreeing is "transphobic." That's seven miles down the road from stupid. That isn't a strongly held belief.