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I believe pinker to be correct on this one. He is right on point. I disagree in some parts of your critic and I believe pinker address all these problems you pose in his full article, but I'l agree with the tables :). Check out my comments on this article on http://encefalus.com/philos...

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Not sure that Andrew actually read the article that Pinker wrote. Perhaps he just read it with too much cognitive bias as to what he wanted it to be about. BTW, the link to Pinker's article no longer works, try here : http://pinker.wjh.harvard.e...Pinker just had 4 points (1) some questions are considered to have too much emotional weight to be be asked in polite society (make your own list, he never claimed his was the most important or that it was exhaustive) (2) there is a case for saying they should be asked nevertheless (3) there is a case for saying they shouldn't (4) don't rely on academia to debate points 2 & 3.What's so difficult about that ?

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