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Dale said:I am saying that people generally don't care about your reasons when your action is to take money or power from them. The objection is to the action and not to the reason.
... or make them do something that they do not want to do. So within the context of this thread there is no war on reason as such.
gleem said:Is this "war" just a noisy refusal of a previously silent minority to accepts some facts from a few sciences that do not agree with their world view?
The noise being turned on by the implementation of unpopular policies.
Could it also be that public attitudes in general have not changed appreciably but have been amplified through social media? It is now much easier to find support for almost any view.