I don’t think we can engage in much “community-wide introspection” without discussing the object-level issues in question, and I can’t think of a single instance of an online discussion of that specific issue going particularly well.
That’s why I’m (mostly) okay tabooing these sorts of discussions. It’s better to deal with the epistemic uncertainty than to risk converging on a false belief.
One problem with discussing this is that we here arguably have an asymmetric discourse situation.
I don’t think we can engage in much “community-wide introspection” without discussing the object-level issues in question, and I can’t think of a single instance of an online discussion of that specific issue going particularly well.
That’s why I’m (mostly) okay tabooing these sorts of discussions. It’s better to deal with the epistemic uncertainty than to risk converging on a false belief.