Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?
This is your opportunity to ask questions. No question too simple or too silly.
Culture war topics are accepted, and proposals for a better intro post are appreciated.
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"Most" is doing a lot of work here. The audience of theMotte is only human, and as such perfectly capable of dealing with cognitive dissonance in unproductive manners. From the top of my head, I remember several discussions on "leftist" topics like vegetarianism, anti-car ideas, electric cars, solar power, urbanism, ect. that not only didn't result in "correct conclusions" (whatever that means in any context), discussion (and voting) wasn't very "intelligent" or "reasoned".
I think you could discuss those matters objectively and rationally. I think on a topic of... I don't know, "the culture of meat consumption in the west, and the necessity of factory farming to sustain it" you could come to a objectively and rationally "correct conclusion" after considering the ethics, economics, health impacts and negative externalities.
But I also think you couldn't do that here.
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