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posted by dennisn on December 16th, 2010 at 8:45PM
I'm not so sure. I would hand-wave that most advances were made by vulgar tactless heroes, who were persecuted and forgotten, until society got over it's preoccupation with tact and caught up with them.
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posted by Nylorac on December 16th, 2010 at 8:53PM
Tact is the underpinning of social development, and all modern development wouldn't have been possible without social development... Are you .. delusional?
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posted by dennisn on December 16th, 2010 at 9:05PM
Well, blargh, I guess some development was done with tact (ie. Darwin waiting 40 years or whatever, for fear of offending tightasses, before releasing his work, which was still neglected despite all his preparation), while other development was done without tact (Richard Dawkins' in-your-face Pope-is-a-pedophile, et cetera). I would hardly call it any kind of underpinning though -- just a personal style.
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