RE: How to easily defeat any argument for God
August 9, 2019 at 8:39 am
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2019 at 8:40 am by Alan V.)
(August 9, 2019 at 4:59 am)Belaqua Wrote: It's clear that we associate rudeness and vulgarity with honesty these days. We think it's downright bad to hold back from calling someone a fuckwad if we happen to disagree with him about metaphysics. "Desublimation" is a useful word, I think.
People often confuse emotional expressions with honesty, without realizing how often our emotions themselves are dishonest. Emotions were evolved to take perceptual shortcuts so that accuracy is sacrificed for speed of reactions. Those shortcuts lead to all sorts of mistakes, so they really are ineffective in dealing with modern situations like intellectual discussions.