Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 22h

Okay Mr. “If you don’t believe what I believe you’re wrong”

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Anonymous OP 22h

That’s literally implicit in the concept of believing things. The difference between us is that I’m honest about it.

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 7h

And that’s why beliefs can be dangerous. Belief requires an unwavering commitment to a thought or argument regardless of good arguments and evidence against it, meaning you are likely to reject the arguments and evidence if you already believe it to be true. It’s the same reason religious people stay in their religion or atheists stay atheists, the same reason Nazis stay Nazis or Leftists stay Leftists.

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 7h

To believe there is an objective truth about something is to say that your belief is the best which is very dangerous in the wrong hands

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Anonymous OP 38m

Belief does not require “unwavering commitment” in the face of contrary information. Many people treat their beliefs that way, and I treat a minority of my own beliefs that way as well. But believing that you objectively know what’s right about something doesn’t preclude openness to amending that belief, imo. Both are important, as a general rule we should neither presume ourselves to be wrong in our beliefs nor forbid ourselves from considering it a possibility.

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Anonymous amethyst_headphone51 2m

But that doesn’t matter anyways because according to you I can believe whatever I want if I think I’m right

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