Burden of Proof

Dialog:

• Port:
  • It is a buzz-kill that we resist innovation by placing the burden of proof on novel ideas.
  • We bias ourselves toward accepted doctrine by forcing new ideas to prove that they are better than old ones.
• Starboard:
  • But, if new ideas were always accepted unless we could find a flaw in them we might spend all our time endlessly cycling through equivalent ideas.
• Port:
  • Dude, you just buzz-killed my buzz-kill.