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newtypeofdog
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
“Respect” has no place in science. There is no value to elevating individuals above ideas. The real and only meaningful respect that should be given to anyone is the success and proliferation of their ideas. There is no value in deifying individuals. In fact it’s a distraction and it introduces all of their flaws into the discussion. It only has downsides with no upside.
newtypeofdog
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
Why would this be insulting to anyone? There is no benefit to worshiping people from the past. Quite the opposite, ideas can and should stand in their own. The person who “discovered” them is of no consequence and at best a distraction.
newtypeofdog
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
> If we judged all the many enormously influential and sometimes celebrated figures of civilization's history by modern moral standards, there would be virtually none left to applaud who were born before the 1960s.

Good! We have a major issue with hero worship in our society. We should not be naming anything after anyone. It serves no purpose other than to create cults of personality.