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Originally Posted by Cap'n Carageous
And by that same reasoning you would believe that the Muslim "kook-de-jour" 's belief that the Holocaust is fiction would be "interesting" simply because someone questions it?
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Not necessarily. For me the questioning alone is insufficient. It is the types of questions or the way the problem is attacked that might interest me.
It's like the discussions of homosexuality that occasionally arise here. I am not interested in homosexuality, per se but I find the discussions surrounding sexuality intriguing. Sometimes I disagree with a certain perspective but find the argument presented interesting and I enjoy seeing where it goes.
So the fish symbol is not especially interesting to me in and of itself. But the surrounding sociological issues do intrigue me.
A colleague of mine proposed a field sampling method to study the fish symbols and their analogues on vehicles. He wondered whether one could derive rules from what was displayed and how rigorous the rules would be. I thought that was interesting, but not enough to devote anything more than speculation. We were thinking it would be a bayesian problem. Maybe someday we'll return to it.
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