(August 25, 2010 at 5:57 pm)EvidenceVsFaith Wrote: Yes that's exactly what it is.
(August 25, 2010 at 5:42 pm)The Omnissiunt One Wrote: If it's just their opinion, then it counts for nothing, as your name suggests.
But they can still voice it and effect others. And the majority opinion (based on nothing or not) can have a lot of effect on people and society. Look at democracy.
My point is that people aren't likely to listen to them if they just voice their opinions. We have to have some principles upon which we can agree, and from which we can conduct rational ethical debate.
'We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.' H.L. Mencken
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
'False religion' is the ultimate tautology.
'It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.' Mark Twain
'I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.' Abraham Lincoln
