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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
What’s a “belief” system? Faith is a belief. Faith as typically minifested, in organized religion, is objectively ludicrous (except as a palliative/placating/organizing myth). Belief is like morality. The usefulness and borders of it are arbitrary and fluid.
Everything is subjective. If you hate any politician entirely, you’re not thinking very deeply. The correct assessment is to view all of the issues discretely. If we took that approach more often, the debates would be less heated. We’d avoid the risk of demagogues. We’d avoid “belief,” which is the kind thing that enables them.
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Sorry, I didn't mean to trigger you with my language. All I meant by "belief system" was "things you believe." For example, you believe that if there is no intent, there is no bias. I would address the substance of this belief with you, if it were not for the fact that you don't engage in honest debate, are unable to admit the possibility that you are ever wrong, and are consumed with the spectacular delusion that you are the sole person in your world capable of engaging in skeptical, critical, and unbiased analysis of issues. I now predict that you are going to say that this is a word salad. Because you fucking LOVE that expression, to the point where you have engaged in elaborate extended metaphors based on the concept of "word salad." Which. Is. Weird.
