(October 2, 2013 at 1:22 pm)max-greece Wrote: "I really don't care if you accept it or not. what i'm asking for is a reasonable standard to consider a belief rational. you can be irrational in your belief and I could care less."
And I am telling you why that standard has to be beyond reasonable. There's nothing irrational about it.
OK - lets try it this way:
A fish and chip shop moves into the building next to mine. I have some concerns over the impact on my health - I go and ask some questions, get answers and decide its OK.
A nuclear reactor moves into the building next to mine. I have some concerns over the impact on my health - I go and ask a lot of fucking questions - way more than I would for the shop and I expect a much better quality of answer.
And this is unreasonable to you?
Yes damn it, why should we care if those around us make naked assertions and hold the world hostage with their delusions? Asking pesky questions hurts their feelings.
Nothing good ever comes out of asking questions or challenging social norms. You act like discovering that the earth rotated around the sun was a good thing. You act like knowing the sun is not a god is a good thing.
Why cant you just leave superstitious people alone?
It is not nice to inconvenience people with pesky things like facts and reality.
