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Whatever your beliefs, it's very stupid to try to have a debate in public on a politcally heated topic with someone you don't know, without some sort of moderator or an agreed-upon set of rules.

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This restricts politics to those that can afford it with those resources, so I disagree. Though it is better when these can be found in a shared friendly setting of course.

But if you don’t have those resources, you also probably don’t have much to lose by having that debate in public.

Except, clearly, a job

Aren't you sort of victim blaming here?

This guy is saying "I believe X" and is fighting really hard for his beliefs. Instead of addressing whether it's valid/worthy, you're insulting his intellect for standing up for what he believes in a way you consider not-savvy.

You can "fight hard for your beliefs" and still shoot yourself in the foot. It’s hard to argue with the idea that there would have been better ways for this guy to get his point across.

Someone should have told Socrates :-)

And the idiot got himself killed for it :-)

You also earn extra-stupid points when your employers and peers across decades gently tell you to knock it off and you refuse.

Are you calling him stupid for openly writing about gayness in the 70's when he was told not to? How else could social change happen without such "stupid" people?

> "You also earn extra-stupid points when your employers and peers across decades gently tell you to knock it off and you refuse."

One wonders how history would've turned out if Galileo had followed your advice? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

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