points of view
one point of view (pov) says a coin is a picture of an eagle. another says it's a portrait of some dead guy. which is right? one pov says both. another says neither, both are incomplete. which is right? mine, of course. all others are wrong. that's one pov. i have many pov's that are unconventional. gravity for example. my pov is gravity is an acceleration. the traditional pov is that gravity is a force. which leads to internal inconsistency. so it's clearly wrong. however, students of gravity-as-force become engineers who build bridges that don't fall down. so just how wrong can it be? some pov's are just silly. like calculating planetary orbits with the earth at the center of the solar system. you can do it. it's just extra work for you. different pov's are good. cause they may reveal solutions to problems that are hidden from other pov's. some pov's are relatively benign. like looking at a billion years of evolution and saying god did it. incurious and not very useful in a scientific context. you can look at the products created by 10 thousand microsoft employees and say bill gates did it. sorta medieval, but whatever. some pov's are obviously downright harmful. like aryanism, racism, sexism, etc. others are more subtly harmful. like reagonomics and runaway global warming.