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All plants require different levels nutrients to grow. If the same plant is grown repeatedly in the same soil then the soil will run out of the nutrients that plant needs and growing that plant becomes difficult. By rotating through plants with different nutrient requirements, the soil can maintain a sustainable balance of nutrients.
We now use the scientific method to argue ideas, but in the past ideas could just be laughed at if people thought they sounded dumb. People laughed at ideas like the sun being the center of the solar system and doctors needing to wash their hands before surgery. Refusal to accept these ideas held humanity back from technological advancement.
Hey, we still laugh at scientists who propose good ideas
What's that quote - something like "science progresses one funeral at a time"? Even scientists have their favourite theories that they'll defend in the face of logic and evidence.
Humans gotta human!
Good explanation. Crop rotation also decreases plant diseases and insect damage.
People didn't just laugh at those ideas, they actively punished the people who proposed them.
Execution is punishment? 🧐
Would you consider it a reward?
Pros and cons.
Well you don't have to witness utter morons destroying the planet...
WHAT?
WHY?!
Because change is costly and therefore a risk. When it seems that resources are scarce, risks are dangerous, and it can seem rational to destroy ideas that cost more resources, lest your imagined model of society collapse for lack of resources as the idea takes over.
It's always conservatism, in other words.
Let's not take the religious aspects out of it though.
The church said earth was the center so saying the sun was the center was going against the church which was blasphemy. Blasphemy punishable by lifelong imprisonment or death.
Likely both as dungeons weren't exactly life friendly.
Because many considered any change to be an affront to Gods will. So they killed free-thinkers to prove God infallible
Because they challenged the notion that mankind is the center of and purpose for the universe.
I feel like this is something that would happened at one of my past shitty jobs or in a crappy friend group.
Used to before the whole covid scam anyway. Now it's "trust the science" which of course is an oxymoron. The whole point of science is that we don't trust it, we verify it. And that wasn't allowed.