Pop evopsych may very well be incredibly bad (I wouldn’t know myself, as I’ve been exposed to very little of it). But if a quote doesn’t have any instructive value beyond making fun of bad ideas—as opposed to more general biases, and even there I’m leery of the “making fun” bit—I’m not sure it belongs here. Particularly if they’re also politically sensitive ideas.
I wouldn’t, for example, consider clever attacks on religion to be shiningly rational.
I think there’s a distinction that could be made between defense of rational positions and attacks on particular irrational ones. Reversed stupidity, etc.
Pop evopsych may very well be incredibly bad (I wouldn’t know myself, as I’ve been exposed to very little of it). But if a quote doesn’t have any instructive value beyond making fun of bad ideas—as opposed to more general biases, and even there I’m leery of the “making fun” bit—I’m not sure it belongs here. Particularly if they’re also politically sensitive ideas.
I wouldn’t, for example, consider clever attacks on religion to be shiningly rational.
As a theist, I would have to agree with you there ;)
People like wit, though, so witty defense of rational positions garners upvotes regardless of intrinsic rationality.
I think there’s a distinction that could be made between defense of rational positions and attacks on particular irrational ones. Reversed stupidity, etc.
Arguments are soldiers, remember?