RE: Why Does Sincrety Make Everything Okay?
September 27, 2015 at 2:13 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2015 at 2:25 pm by Pyrrho.)
(September 27, 2015 at 1:31 pm)abaris Wrote:(September 27, 2015 at 1:12 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Sincerity of belief, strength of belief, steadfastness of belief in no way justifies the content of belief. You can be sincerely wrong. If you find yourself on the wrong road, you wouldn’t stay on that road just so people can give you credit for steadfastness.
Yes, but not everyone is a preaching sanctimonious prick. Most people just believe and leave everyone else in peace. Not everyone is a Randy, so to speak and who am I to pester them?
Yes, but someone can be insincere and not be a sanctimonious prick. Being a sanctimonious prick is a separate issue.
Additionally, people can harm others without being sanctimonious pricks. By the way they vote, for example, which affects others. They vote the way they do because of their beliefs, and so what they believe is a matter than concerns others.
People don't believe things without it affecting their actions. In fact, one measures the sincerity (reality) of belief by one's actions. In the OP, we judge the boy's beliefs by his actions. If he had been unwilling to jump, then we would know that he did not really believe that he could fly.
People's beliefs affect their actions, and their actions affect others. Consequently, what people believe is something that affects others.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
