RE: Atheists, George Zimmerman and the burden of proof
February 6, 2014 at 9:24 am
(This post was last modified: February 6, 2014 at 9:25 am by Ben Davis.)
*insert tuppence
You were certainly guilty of that last one with me and your discussion here with Ryantology smacks of the same. It's really frustrating: very few people are that one-dimensional and I know you know this!
Anyway, sorry for the interruption: please continue.
(February 4, 2014 at 3:27 pm)là bạn điên Wrote: I hear people that profess to be atheists demand that Zimmerman was convicted despite their NOT being proof beyond doubt that he was guilty...That's because an individual's position on the existence of god/s has little/no bearing on their view of justice/application of law. Also, you seem to be under the impression that all atheists come by their position due to application of the 'burden of proof argument' when that's clearly fallacious.
Quote:Is it just that political ideology just takes over for some people?Possibly. It's also possible that you're adding extra baggage to your definition of 'atheist'. It's even more possible that you're mislabelling people as 'idealogues' because you have a tendency to want to oversimplify the positions of others instead of questioning them more thoroughly before coming to conclusions regarding their value-systems.
You were certainly guilty of that last one with me and your discussion here with Ryantology smacks of the same. It's really frustrating: very few people are that one-dimensional and I know you know this!
Anyway, sorry for the interruption: please continue.
Sum ergo sum
