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Rationalists are, to a man (and they’re almost all men) arrogant dickheads and arrogant dickheads do not see what they’re doing to be “a cult” but “the right and proper way of things because I am right and logical and rational and everyone else isn’t”.

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That's an unnecessary charicaterature. I have met many rationalists of both genders and found most of them quite pleasant. But it seems that the proportion of "arrogant dickheads" unfortunately matches that of the general population. Whether it's "irrational people" or "liberal elites" these assholes always seem to find someone to look down on.

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