Q&A: “Curt, Why do you spend time supporting (x class of people).” Yeah. I’m sup

Q&A: “Curt, Why do you spend time supporting (x class of people).”

Yeah. I’m supportive. No I’m not picky about it. I am supportive of any attempt to construct amoral arguments in social science using the language of incentives, voluntary exchange, and truth. And conversely, what do you expect me to do? While I don’t have a bunch of classrooms to use as a sounding board, do you know how awesome it is NOT to hold a professorship where you are trying to preserve your status, trying to defend your department’s position on x or y, trying not to offend potential ‘customers’, and not get into trouble with the politically correct bureaucracy? I’m privileged as hell. So I share it. And in exchange I get people to help me understand what I don’t yet understand. Its awesome. We’re all stumbling in the dark. We all help each other. Humans are awesome.

And yes, there is a class of lightly autistic fellow that argues what he understands and WANTS to be true, because learning what he doesn’t is hard for him. That’s ok. Show compassion to them. Over time they learn too.

Never tolerate the rallying and shaming or ad hominems though. I don’t and you shouldn’t. It’s intellectual cancer. Lying to silence the truth.