RE: "Why is it reasonable to believe in prisons, but not in the hell?"
January 5, 2021 at 2:41 pm
(This post was last modified: January 5, 2021 at 2:43 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
@FlatAssembler
Maybe a thought experiment would help. Imagine that you find yourself at the center of an elaborate trick. You wake up sitting on the floor of a room that is completely unremarkable in any perceivable way. Would you consider yourself irrational for believing that the ceiling is up and the floor is down? If it turns out that the ceiling is in, and the floor is out..because I'm laughing my ass off in the control room of a giant centrifuge - that you were wrong - would that mean that you were being irrational?
Likely no in either case, yeah? Your beliefs about the room matched your reasons for belief - and so, if on the basis of those beliefs which match your reasons... you decide to put a glass of water on the top of the table, rather than the side, you'll have been behaving and making decisions in a rational manner. It might all go to shit if I turn off the machine, ofc, and you'll probably end up wet, and you were wrong the whole time...but it was rational in the same sense that society is contended to be rational and that insurrections, insurgencies, massacres, genocides, and wars are contended to be rational. In the same way that prisons are contended to be rational.
Maybe a thought experiment would help. Imagine that you find yourself at the center of an elaborate trick. You wake up sitting on the floor of a room that is completely unremarkable in any perceivable way. Would you consider yourself irrational for believing that the ceiling is up and the floor is down? If it turns out that the ceiling is in, and the floor is out..because I'm laughing my ass off in the control room of a giant centrifuge - that you were wrong - would that mean that you were being irrational?
Likely no in either case, yeah? Your beliefs about the room matched your reasons for belief - and so, if on the basis of those beliefs which match your reasons... you decide to put a glass of water on the top of the table, rather than the side, you'll have been behaving and making decisions in a rational manner. It might all go to shit if I turn off the machine, ofc, and you'll probably end up wet, and you were wrong the whole time...but it was rational in the same sense that society is contended to be rational and that insurrections, insurgencies, massacres, genocides, and wars are contended to be rational. In the same way that prisons are contended to be rational.
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