The Jackass Free Experiment

[noadmin57]

Thanks, I do understand and appreciate the entertainment value as well.

I also understand that often, the best method to understand something is to seek out more information from sources that already seem to make sense. If I want to understand more about earthquakes, I'd read up on mainstream science sources that I trust, rather than studying what I consider to be crackpot theories. With issues like economics and politics, I also think that it makes sense to seek out sources that I trust, but I risk confirmation bias if I don't try to understand some of the competing theories. Even if the competing theories REALLY are crackpot theories, it's really a good idea to fully understand them anyway, especially the ones that have a significant number of followers. There is an interesting divergence of very strong opinions among very intelligent people when it comes to politics. I think that more non-combative discussion about these topics would be a good thing for society.

The other concept thing that I'm hoping to promote here, is to have a place where ideas win on their own merits, and not on the skills of the debater.

We'll see. I'm hoping that we can get a critical mass of posting activity on the forum to keep this thing going.