beyond debate

[ajschumacher]

maybe a science club?

topics:

• is there a limit to consumption, as in 20170821-downward_spiral_destructive_of_civic_virtue?

[ajschumacher]

Also related to #175 maybe...

Things that may be considered beyond debate:

• Things that are already resolved in one direction, e.g. climate change. Scientific process means they're not really closed for debate, but a lot of the "debate" around them seems pretty fake or not in good faith without additional information etc.
• Axiomatic idealism: "We hold these truths to be self evident" not because of evidence proving them but because acting as if they're true is beneficial to society and tends to make them true (?)
  • cf. "Instead, a new consensus has emerged in the press, but perhaps especially at this paper: that truth isn’t a process of collective discovery, but an orthodoxy already known to an enlightened few whose job is to inform everyone else." from the Bari Weiss resignation from NYT https://www.bariweiss.com/resignation-letter

[ajschumacher]

for search: inarguable argument unarguable