(September 27, 2014 at 6:03 pm)genkaus Wrote: Other category, like finding reasons to believe in god, would be nothing more than mental masturbation. These issues keep popping up because people want to use them to justify their preconceived ideas even if they have been shown to be fallacious.
I agree, but with a caveat. So long as there is ignorance in the minds of people, I think they should be encouraged to form their ignorance into logical arguments. If they do, they may one day realize that supporting their world view is a highly inefficient or impossible endeavor, and that the reason for this is that they are supporting BS.
That's one of the real beautiful points of philosophy, isn't it? Having a method of determining what ideas are bad ones, and being able to explain why they are bad.
