Of Radicals and Dogmatists
Dogmatism is bad. If someone calls you dogmatic, an ideologue, he implies that you are irrevocably wedded to your ideology and your belief system. You refuse to consider stringent counterarguments and quibbling counterevidence. Instead of taking into account the arguments for and against, say, the support of a subsidy for the—surely incredibly important—chip industry, you, the dogmatist, proclaim that subsidies per se are reprehensible, illegitimate, or inefficient. Or all three things at once.
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