(August 4, 2014 at 3:21 am)psychoslice Wrote:(August 4, 2014 at 3:10 am)Esquilax Wrote: The only person who stands to gain from trying to put every belief on the same level is the person who's in the wrong.
And of course your right, always right, mmm ?.
... If I didn't think my belief about this was right, why would I continue to hold it?

But then, I'm also not the person here who, rather than presenting evidence, decided that the best course of action was instead to pretend that every belief is equal, which is definitely only a thing that benefits people whose beliefs are factually incorrect or lacking in evidence. Their wrong beliefs get elevated to the same level as correct things, while correct things get dragged down and tarnished by being on the same level as wrong things.
It's much better to accept that some beliefs are worse than others, and some are superior, but to ensure your own beliefs are mutable and change to best fit the evidence. This "hey, I have my beliefs and you have yours!" schtick is just a way to insulate yourself from evidence and self reflection so that you never have to change, but I don't find that persuasive. The man with harmful beliefs has worse beliefs than the one who doesn't, they are not on the same level, and to pretend that they are does a grave disservice not only to the people put in harm's way by what you think of as "just your beliefs," but also to the concept of reality itself.
Sorry, but if your beliefs are wrong, they're wrong, and no amount of holding to the in spite of contradictory evidence will make them true. Also, I'm not sorry. You picked a piece of dishonest rhetoric to be your last thread to pull on, here.
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