Comment on People who reject challenging ideas as stupid without engagement are like intellectual nepobabies
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 21 hours agoThis is the same good faith argument that cultists, religious recruiters, libertarians, and racists use.
You don’t have to engage with morally abhorrent arguments out of loyalty to some platonic ideal of intellectualism. You’re allowed to tell people to fuck off.
3abas@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
You tell them to fuck off because you engaged with it and found it completely meritless/abhorrent, not because you’re above engaging with it. If they present new evidence for lizard people, you should skeptically examine the evidence and tell them to fuck off when it doesn’t hold up.
You don’t have to engage with them and waste your time debating them, but you absolutely should be open to challenge your own positions.
Yliaster@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Should implies a subjective judgment.
3abas@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I’m stating my opinion on the matter…
I think you should engage with challenging ideas as the post says, I don’t think it’s an “ideal of intellectualism”, I just think it serves your own interests to be open to realize you’ve been mislead.