From: Robin Hanson (hanson@hss.caltech.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 12 1997 - 11:27:32 MDT
Lee Daniel Crocker writes:
>Those who use the term "ideologue" as derogatory--and there are
>many--do not oppose only those ideologies imposed by fear or used to
>control others. They hold equal disdain for reasoned ideologies and
>ideologies opposed to control. I have been called an ideologue in the
>dergoatory sense more than once for being a free-speech absolutist,
>for example.
I use the term "ideologue" as derogatory because it connotes for me
people who are far more sure of their beliefs than a rational person
should be. I also agree with Kathyrn that thinking in terms of
"enemy" is correlated with ideologues, not to their credit.
Robin D. Hanson hanson@hss.caltech.edu http://hss.caltech.edu/~hanson/
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