RE: Skeptics might be jumping to conclusions
April 8, 2018 at 10:37 pm
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2018 at 10:42 pm by Transcended Dimensions.)
(April 8, 2018 at 10:31 pm)Lutrinae Wrote: Clearly.
That's my whole point. Both sides should do full research into one another's fields of study and objections being addressed before jumping to conclusions. Now, we can use these shortcuts on really dumb people. For example, if someone claimed that drinking lethal poison would not be lethal for you, then you can give up the argument right then and there with that person because we obviously know for a fact that poison is lethal for you. We clearly see that, when people drink it, they either die or become severely ill. This observation alone is the shortcut that obviously leads to the conclusion that drinking poison is lethal and that it would, therefore, be a waste of time to consider any more arguments this dumb person would make.
However, when it comes to smart people who have had a lot of training and education, we should not use these shortcuts. We should instead conduct full research when arriving at the truth. If we were to use shortcuts in regards to these smart paranormal researchers, then that would be treating them as no different than that dumb person who thought that drinking poison was not lethal. It's an unfair, close minded, insulting treatment of these paranormal researchers. Likewise, it is also an unfair, close minded, insulting treatment of skeptics for paranormal researchers to use these shortcuts as well.