Cultural heritage is a human right

http://voxday.blogspot.com/2018/06/mailvox-fencing-converged.html

Sue for defamation and lost earnings, make them hurt financially. Witch mobs are illegal.

You don’t have to prove they really didn’t believe it, just that they didn’t care about the truth.

Malicious gossip is illegal, make the trial public and don’t settle out of court.

Demand your pound of flesh.

That is how defamation law is structured.

It’s a white sport and art form.
That means they make the rules and can exclude whoever they please. Like a pub or a club.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNESCO_Intangible_Cultural_Heritage_Lists#List_of_Intangible_Cultural_Heritage_in_Need_of_Urgent_Safeguarding

Expand this.

Why do humans argue?

Because there’s a wrong way to do things and we need to defend it.

paper pdf, here’s select from the abstract section ;

“Our hypothesis is that the function of reasoning is argumentative. It is to devise and evaluate arguments intended to persuade.” [DS: good]

“Skilled arguers, however, are not after the truth but after arguments supporting their views.” [ehh, sorta]

“Reasoning so motivated can distort evaluations and attitudes and allow erroneous beliefs to persist. [that’s poor reasoning and should be discounted from pure theory]

Proactively used reasoning also favors decisions that are easy to justify but not necessarily better. In all these instances traditionally described as failures or flaws, reasoning does exactly what can be expected of an argumentative device: Look for arguments that support a given conclusion … favour conclusions for which arguments can be found.”

I like cogpsych papers, but they tend to miss the wider picture and the subtlety of linguistics in rhetoric e.g. emphasis.

Social signalling, in short. If your social reputation depends on empirical truth, suddenly it becomes the primary priority. This is why politicians don’t have lifelong careers at the top. Ownership is separate from outcome.