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DoomUK said:
But for the rest of us, what else can be done or said that hasn't been covered by scientific wisdom, except to make fun of it?
Mostly ignore it.
I probably would make fun of it if someone were to try to do something practical with these notions, but less so just because of the ideas. The world is full of silly, stupid or insane ideas, and in many senses they are expected. They are in part real reactions to situations and conditions that the subjects may not be in a position to escape. Trying to "shake them out of them" may not be of any use. At least in relation to them. It may be of use to us for ourselves.
Ridiculing them as if we were necessarily much better may be a sign we aren't ready to understand humanity. The category of "the insane" is in part a form of dismissal of weird and indirect behavior that is itself natural and subject to being understood in one way or another. Is it possible to respect the mentally disabled and unbalanced, or other people much unlike us, or treat them sensibly or reasonably, when we're always categorizing crazy shit in a derisive way?
Although, keep in mind I didn't suggest people should necessarily stop ridiculing it. Because of my interest in the mind, behavior and human nature, I mainly pointed out that the act of ridiculing it comes from being "moved" by the silly ideas. Making fun of things makes them harmless or inoculates them. Assuming we are especially entitled to make fun of them doesn't change that, and you can still make fun of such things while being aware of what I'm saying. I was more interested in adding something people weren't addressing, although 188DarkRevived did a bit with some humor by pointing out the irony of ridiculing the prediction but noting it may more or less come true later somehow.
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