Though I am glad not everyone followed this advice with regards to me, when I was (more of) an idiot. I owe those patient, sympathetic, tolerant people a great deal.
I would also like to note that I have learned a number of interesting things by (a) spending an hour researching idiotic claims and (b) reading carefully thought out refutations of idiocy—like how they’re called “federal forts” because the statutes of the states in which they were built include explicitly ceding the land upon which they were built to the federal government.
Though I am glad not everyone followed this advice with regards to me, when I was (more of) an idiot. I owe those patient, sympathetic, tolerant people a great deal.
I would also like to note that I have learned a number of interesting things by (a) spending an hour researching idiotic claims and (b) reading carefully thought out refutations of idiocy—like how they’re called “federal forts” because the statutes of the states in which they were built include explicitly ceding the land upon which they were built to the federal government.