It always annoys me when people try to evaluate ideas from their social context rather than their content.
Contains a grammatical ambiguity; the first “their” could refer to the people or the ideas. I meant it to refer to the ideas. I’m not asking people to stop using their own social norms when they judge ideas. I am saying that the society from which an idea originated is irrelevant to judging the truth of that idea. (At least once you’ve fully understood what the idea is. Before that you might need to understand its context in order to resolve ambiguities in the description of the idea.)
So I’m not claiming that I’m not biased by my cultural heritage (although of course I aspire to be unbiased), I’m just saying that transhumanism shouldn’t be attacked or defended based on its heritage.
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Contains a grammatical ambiguity; the first “their” could refer to the people or the ideas. I meant it to refer to the ideas. I’m not asking people to stop using their own social norms when they judge ideas. I am saying that the society from which an idea originated is irrelevant to judging the truth of that idea. (At least once you’ve fully understood what the idea is. Before that you might need to understand its context in order to resolve ambiguities in the description of the idea.)
So I’m not claiming that I’m not biased by my cultural heritage (although of course I aspire to be unbiased), I’m just saying that transhumanism shouldn’t be attacked or defended based on its heritage.