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Originally Posted by photon
Well on the surface it makes sense that people who do care about what other people believe (monotheists, I'm right you are wrong) will always do more about it than people who don't care what you think (you like Athena, I like Apollo, lets have a beer).
But since the answer to most things in life is "it's complicated"... 
I think that's fair to say about pretty much anything that's "out there". People are at the level they are at, popular arguments are popular because the real stuff would be inaccessible to the laity.
Media reporting on science drives me crazy because they get almost everything wrong and when they do get it right it's either for the wrong reason, or they miss a nuance. I don't doubt one bit that the same happens for history or philosophy or politics or anything else.
But what can you do, until we can learn stuff Matrix style by downloading or whatever, no one has the time to really understand the nuances of everything. |
Even though the more technical aspects of philosophy are inaccessible to the laity, it's pretty clear to me that the education format and the overall culture make these questions a lot harder to approach for the average person. Quite simply, people think they have better things to do.