Science is all about peer review, which is other people telling you how you got it wrong. In fact, if you do science right, you want people to tell you how you got it wrong, so you can get it more right next time!
You seem to be maintaining that I am advocating for people to do this by bludgeoning each other to death with weapons, verbal or otherwise. I am not. I am merely pointing out that systems where expressing “you got it wrong” (aka downvoting) is allowed, are not compatible with systems of opinion. That is why there is no downvoting here for example.
I’d also like to point out that in systems of opinion, telling somehow how they got it wrong is going to cause them to entrench and double down on whatever it is they believe. And the science tells me so…
Research from the University of Toronto reinforces our findings: In one study white subjects read a brochure critiquing prejudice toward blacks. When people felt pressure to agree with it, the reading strengthened their bias against blacks. When they felt the choice was theirs, the reading reduced bias.
Systems of data, fact, and science can be civil because they are anchored on data based observations that are not tied to religion, or belief system, or opinion…
