That's funny, that's exactly what I thought about the idea that they're all useless at logic.
You rail against bullshit (very entertainingly, if I might say so, although entertaining me is obviously not the point), which is fair enough, and a decent target. I think you over-egging it: I don't really care what bullshit people spout, buy into, or even really use to justify their actions. There are lots of other aspects of bad behaviour that I'd sooner see done away with: impoliteness, for instance. This is likely an opinion largely garnered from the culture I was raised in, admittedly, but I think we could go a long way with a simple empathic regard for each other, even if it was based upon a semi-rational worldview.
(Proper politeness comes from empathy in large part; but I don't care either if people fake it and just display the outward symptoms, because - just like the existence of a nonphysical god being a pretty moot question - I don't really care about the metaphysics so much as the observable effects.)
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Re: Assumptions
Date: 2010-10-02 09:18 am (UTC)You rail against bullshit (very entertainingly, if I might say so, although entertaining me is obviously not the point), which is fair enough, and a decent target. I think you over-egging it: I don't really care what bullshit people spout, buy into, or even really use to justify their actions. There are lots of other aspects of bad behaviour that I'd sooner see done away with: impoliteness, for instance. This is likely an opinion largely garnered from the culture I was raised in, admittedly, but I think we could go a long way with a simple empathic regard for each other, even if it was based upon a semi-rational worldview.
(Proper politeness comes from empathy in large part; but I don't care either if people fake it and just display the outward symptoms, because - just like the existence of a nonphysical god being a pretty moot question - I don't really care about the metaphysics so much as the observable effects.)