Moderation thread

[DVaut1]

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Secondly, and somewhat related, I’m all for giving authorities their due esteem. But claiming the offended party is a “world class authority, who knows more about the topic under discussion than the insulter could ever hope to understand in his lifetime” also reeks of the subjectivism I referred to earlier.

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That is not necessarily a subjective assessment (especially if the discipline in question is a hard science such as physics or mathematics).

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Since it's not a physics or mathematics board, but a politics board, then I fail to see how this is at all relevant.

Show me a 'world class authority' in the social sciences, and I'll show you someone whose faith in the study of social science almost demands that their authority be questioned, and often strongly so.