"Why is it reasonable to believe in prisons, but not in the hell?"

[FlatAssembler]

We don't throw people in jail for cheating on their spouses, but, no..simply having such a law would not make a system or ideology authoritarian.

Then what does authoritarian mean?

Most soldiers, on either side, imagine themselves to be the heroes of the story

Again, how can you rationally believe you will be a hero if you join an illegal army attacking a hospital?

If people feel that prisons are an adequate course of action with respect to some objective, then there will be prisons - this is what the principle of rationality states.

So, you think that Bryan Caplan in his "Myth of the Rational Voter" was, in fact, arguing against a straw-man?

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A theist trying on scepticism for the first time.

Why would I have to be a theist?

Perhaps there's a reason they don't want visitors.

Isn't that an ad-hoc hypothesis?