Common Folk Collective » darwin http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog Common Folk Doing Uncommon Things Tue, 15 Mar 2016 17:08:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 Fair and Balanced http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/10/fair-and-balanced/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fair-and-balanced http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/2013/10/fair-and-balanced/#comments Thu, 10 Oct 2013 14:41:43 +0000 http://commonfolkcollective.com/blog/?p=4820 Open debate is one of the hallmarks of a strong democracy because if people aren’t aware of all of the options they cannot make an informed decision. Unfortunately this has been hijacked to mean that every option no matter how discredited or downright silly stills need to accommodated despite its absurdity. This post in the Bad Astronomy Blog over at Slate is a wonderful piece of writing explaining why accommodation to clearly asinine stances is something that needs to cease.

It's turtles all the way down.

It’s turtles all the way down.



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