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Curiosity
Submitted March 7, 2007 - 1:49 am by Kimberly DieserAuthors regularly accept criticism, perhaps even gratefully, from their peers and editors. As a general rule, they know full well that the open flow of opinions will spark adaptation and foster improvement. By contrast, protestors and participants of civil disobedience are derided or thought of as traitors, as though the acknowledgment of a fault entails immorality and malice.
Even in the scope of theory, of academia, one who speaks a minority view is often shunned without anything more than nominal attention paid to his actual argument. Would you happen to have a hypothesis as to why?