RE: Dawkins loses humanist title
April 22, 2021 at 8:05 am
(This post was last modified: April 22, 2021 at 8:11 am by The Grand Nudger.)
The ideology of humanism is exactly that people should tow the humanist line, even if...and especially when...reality does not conform to the ideology.
That's what humanism is, that's it's goal. Not to accurately describe reality as it is, but to actively change reality so that it's closer to how we wish it to be.
All of that is at play regardless of any disagreement you and I have about whether he was actually throwing himself against public opinion in the pursuit of empirical or objective truth. I don't think he was, you might think he was, hell... he probably thinks he was...but the item of that disagreement is irrelevant to the advocacy and pursuit of an ideology. That's what the aha does. Advocates for and pursues a specific ideology. I think it's strange to be upset at a dog for eating a biscuit. He wasn't stripped of the title humanist, there is no such title, and the aha can't give it out or revoke it. He was stripped of an award that -they- granted, because he no longer fits the organizations goals as they see them, due to a pattern of behavior and comment that is perfectly available for anyone to go and have a look at, for themselves.
That's what humanism is, that's it's goal. Not to accurately describe reality as it is, but to actively change reality so that it's closer to how we wish it to be.
All of that is at play regardless of any disagreement you and I have about whether he was actually throwing himself against public opinion in the pursuit of empirical or objective truth. I don't think he was, you might think he was, hell... he probably thinks he was...but the item of that disagreement is irrelevant to the advocacy and pursuit of an ideology. That's what the aha does. Advocates for and pursues a specific ideology. I think it's strange to be upset at a dog for eating a biscuit. He wasn't stripped of the title humanist, there is no such title, and the aha can't give it out or revoke it. He was stripped of an award that -they- granted, because he no longer fits the organizations goals as they see them, due to a pattern of behavior and comment that is perfectly available for anyone to go and have a look at, for themselves.
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