RE: No reason justifies disbelief.
March 18, 2019 at 7:47 am
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2019 at 7:48 am by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(March 18, 2019 at 6:54 am)tackattack Wrote: that's a new one. Please define reasoned disbelief @BrianSoddingBoru4
I thought I had, but I'll have another go.
Reasoned disbelief is the rejection of a proposition when there is neither convincing evidence nor compelling arguments to support the proposition. Let's do Bigfoot as an example. I disbelieve in Bigfoot because the evidence for Bigfoot simply isn't there - no bodies, no bones, no adolescents, no scat, no hair, no nothing. Believers use all manner of specious arguments to explain away this (for them) disturbing lack of evidence: Bigfeet are too smart to get caught; Bigfeet are hyperdimensional beings; Bigfeet are aliens; and so on. Given the non-existence of evidence and the non-compelling nature of the explanations, I make the reasoned choice to disbelieve that Bigfeet exist.
To be fair, there is also 'unreasoned disbelief'. Things like, 'I don't believe in Bigfeet because I'VE never seen one' or 'My spirit animal told be not to believe in Bigfeet.'
Hope this helps.
Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson