In your #7 (“ It’s also hard because when bad people are scientists or writers, there’s no easy way to punish them without also punishing their ideas.”) I’d expand on ‘writers’ to include all artists — there are lots of examples of exceptional artists that are or were “bad people.”
In your #7 (“ It’s also hard because when bad people are scientists or writers, there’s no easy way to punish them without also punishing their ideas.”) I’d expand on ‘writers’ to include all artists — there are lots of examples of exceptional artists that are or were “bad people.”
For sure. Really it's anyone in any field where there's a strong norm that people "own" their ideas. Artists, journalists, academics. Borderline cases would be... comedians? Magicians? Politicians?
Politicians very much! There was a (mercifully brief) period in the UK where being pro growth associated you with the disastrous Liz Truss era, where being skeptical of privatisation associated you with Corbyn's wackier ideas, etc.
In your #7 (“ It’s also hard because when bad people are scientists or writers, there’s no easy way to punish them without also punishing their ideas.”) I’d expand on ‘writers’ to include all artists — there are lots of examples of exceptional artists that are or were “bad people.”
For sure. Really it's anyone in any field where there's a strong norm that people "own" their ideas. Artists, journalists, academics. Borderline cases would be... comedians? Magicians? Politicians?
Politicians very much! There was a (mercifully brief) period in the UK where being pro growth associated you with the disastrous Liz Truss era, where being skeptical of privatisation associated you with Corbyn's wackier ideas, etc.