lightfive

Too many boring relationship/DAE posts as of late, so let's try this.

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”

― Harlan Ellison

Most Western societies would assert that liberty brings with it the right to be ignorant and to espouse beliefs even if there are mountains of evidence to the contrary. We consider ignorance and misinformation a side effect of the freedoms we enjoy. At the same time, we're moving towards an age in which information will play a much more central role and in which large bodies of information -- whether they're true or false -- are readily available at our hands. Thanks to the internet, co