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"Arbitrary" is precisely the problem. Nick thinks it's all arbitrary. It's not. He even goes as far as to equate atheists and religious fundamentalists. I'm not trying to go all Second World War on your ass and start sending you quotes from Hannah Arendt and the banality of evil but it's true. Ideology is impossible to escape. What I'm ordering at Subway is an ideology. Rather it's more apt to make deliberate choices we can justify than opt out of thinking altogether. This essay would just be wrong but when you start equating Nazis with the opposition that crosses the line. Yes I'm dogmatic. I think racism is bad. Where you see enlightenment I see cowardice.