“When Someone Discovers Something Dramatically New, the World Doesn’t Flip a Switch So That Everyone Comes Around to the New Idea in 10 Minutes. There Has to be a Process of Questioning and Discussing and Exploring Implications Before People Feel Comfortable Moving on to Something New.”

Set forth below is the text of a comment that I recently posted to the discussion thread for another blog entry at this site:

“ Lots of people need to change their minds.”

Because everyone needs to agree with you, including Pfau, Shiller, your wife, etc. Only Rob Bennett knows what is honest. The world just needs to fall in line.

When someone discovers something dramatically new, the world doesn’t flip a switch so that everyone comes around to the new idea in 10 minutes. There has to be a process of questioning and discussing and exploring implications before people feel comfortable moving on to something new. So it’s healthy and normal if people offer different points of view.

But, yes, there should be universal ageement on the need to open every site to honest posting. We all need to follow the laws and norms of our society.

That’s where I’m coming from re this one, Anonymous.

Rob