The Peril of Politicizing Science [pdf]
The biggest problem from my PoV is that people seem like they are always absolutely sure that the contemporary understanding of morals is actually correct, unlike the primitive beliefs of the past, and that there&#x27;s nothing left to challenge. Convincing people that this is what people <i>always</i> believe and yet it has <i>never</i> been true seems impossible. It seems difficult for people to imagine that there&#x27;s more left to discuss.<p>What I&#x27;d rather do is try to convince people that it&#x27;s wrong to apply this kind of ideological control regardless of whether or not you <i>think</i> it&#x27;s correct. But that&#x27;s hard, because if it was correct, and people do earnestly believe it is, then what do they have to lose?<p>I also think that dishonest portrayals of even recent history are a huge problem for understanding that a lot of the moral conundrums we have today <i>are not new</i>. It&#x27;s mostly the sensationalism and moral panics that are always changing.