(August 12, 2016 at 2:18 pm)SteveII Wrote:(August 12, 2016 at 2:07 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Steve if all you're arguing for is the right to choose the beliefs you wish to regard as foundational, have at it. Of course the same can be said by anyone who holds a whacko idea very highly so long as doing so results in no life threatening consequences. The Heaven's Gate group is an example of 39 people who were so convinced of their whacko idea that they committed mass suicide in order to meet up with the supernatural power they were convinced was waiting for them. Amazingly none of them were awarded a Darwin Award.
There are conditions to being a 'properly basic belief' (a technical term). One of which is that there is no external defeaters for your belief.
Defeaters like this:
“Happy is he who repays you for what you have done to us – he who seizes your infants and dashes them against the rocks.” (Psalm 137:9)
