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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.
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