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Monday, November 12

Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion. All you need is strong convictions.


As a rule, any mention of religion on an online forum degenerates into a religious argument. Why? Why does this happen with religion and not with Javascript or baking or other topics people talk about on forums?

What's different about religion is that people don't feel they need to have any particular expertise to have opinions about it. All they need is strongly held beliefs, and anyone can have those. No thread about Javascript will grow as fast as one about religion, because people feel they have to be over some threshold of expertise to post comments about that. But on religion everyone's an expert.

trasmitted at 11/12/2012 01:32:00 PM
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