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We honestly believe that there are no positions that are epistemologically superior to any others.

But I do at the same time argue with and try to overthrow those I don't agree with! Relativism in this sense does not imply neutrality rather, it implies forswearing claims to absolute epistemological authority. This is quite different from abandoning moral commitments. (Star, 1995b: 22) From: Star SL. (1995b) Introduction. Ecologies of knowledge: work and politics in science and technology. Albany: SUNY, 1-35. See also: Helmreich S. (2012) Extraterrestrial Relativism. Anthropological Quarterly, Special Collection: Extreme: Humans at Home in the Cosmos 85: 11251140. Jensen CB. (2011) Comparative Relativism: Symposium on an Impossibility. Common Knowledge 17: 1-12. YOU GET TO HAVE YOUR OPINION, ARGUMENT, EVIDENCE, WORLDLY COMMITMENTS: PLEASE DISAGREE OPENLY, CAREFULLY, WITH RELISH FOR GOOD STORIES! SAY WHAT YOU THINK BUT KEEP DISCUSSION OPEN, DONT CLOSE IT! Im right! <jump up and down> _______________________________________________ Im right <said secretly because it is dangerous to say so, or say about what> __________ <I am too <shy, fearful> to know what I think, let alone say anything about it.> ________ Im right! I literally cannot understand any other position: they are insane/EVIL! _________ Im right! Other positions not mine, I feel them call my values into question: ____________ Im right! Other positions (not mine) are: ______________________________________ Gut feeling: ______ and yet I can see also: ____________________________________ Im right! But in another context (scope and scale), this could be right too: _____________ (person, kin, friends, neighborhood, nation, planet, universe, multiverse, quantum manifold, or _________) In my <neck of the woods> we all agree on : ________ & other there they think: _______ They are wrong! _________________________________________________________ They are right for their _________ but not for ours ______________________________ If I am not against __________ my own integrity is called into question because ________ If I am not careful and right, my survival is at stake in this way _________________ Another history (not mine) leads to thinking ______ & in solidarilty I agree __________ It makes a great story! Even if _____________________________________________ This isnt my concern. I dont care because ___________________________________ other possibilities here? __________________________________________________

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