[ExI] Anti-transhumanist crap on Kuro5hin and related.

[BillK]

On 11/7/07, Keith Henson wrote:
> It is worth keeping in mind why people do anything.
>
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>
> So people have been shaped to be rewarded by activities they find
> gains them attention. Cults take vicious advantage of this human
> psychological feature.
>
> It's what motivates people to post, here, on kuro5hin and to take
> stands that gain them a lot of response.  A substantial fraction of
> people can't distinguish between sense and nonsense or between
> positive and negative attention especially in an all text media.
>
> So when you see these kinds of things, it is sometimes worth taking a
> step back and looking at the root cause for the behavior. And perhaps
> considering if you want to reward them with attention or ignore them
> and do something more productive.
>


Good post.

This accords with the 'Don't feed the trolls!' motto.

But the problem in human affairs is that if the silent majority don't
make their disapproval known, then the lie goes by default.
Politicians rely on their publicity machine outgunning the inertia of
most people, so that their propaganda becomes the assumed worldview.

Lies and injustice have to be opposed.

BillK