• Free Speech and Censorship
    Do you think restricting speech needs to be justified?— Pinprick


    Do you think restricting who can enter your home needs to be justified?

    Why do people use irrelevant extreme analogies to try to prove a dubious point.
    Freespeech is in no way similiar to having a door on your house.
    A conversation is not a private house.
  • Why do my beliefs need to be justified?
    @Kenosha Kid
    Don't need to. I get your interpretation. Anything outside scientism is not valid. Proving my point of course,that justification is authoritarianism of a particular political ideology.
  • Why do my beliefs need to be justified?
    @Kenosha Kid
    By idiosyncratic of course you mean anything not accepted by scientism... Wonderful display of circularity and authoritarian thinking.
  • Why do my beliefs need to be justified?
    @Kenosha Kid
    That is not what is meant by common sense and you know it! That is the Elitist justificationism that I was talking about.
  • Why do my beliefs need to be justified?
    @Kenosha Kid
    Show me some philosophers or scientists who proved their ideas with common sense?
  • Why do my beliefs need to be justified?
    @Tom Storm
    I personally recommend feel. Faith only if you really trust that person.
    Yeah,common sense is sometimes an abused term,but I think it does refer to a shared reality for some people.
  • How Do We Think About the Bible From a Philosophical Point of View?
    Any religious text worth its salt can be used for some kind of psychological exploration.
    And really all philosophical explorations are really psychological explorations and expressions.
  • Why do my beliefs need to be justified?
    @Kenosha Kid
    But the exact same applies to justificationism.
    When was the last debate or post you saw settled by common sense?
  • Why do my beliefs need to be justified?
    @Tom Storm
    Well science,philosophy,academia,religious apologetics,public debates ,the legal system and politics are replete with discussions which are so convoluted and demanding of practical and abstract evidence that only those peer reviewed and in accordance with the accepted dogma and jargon can publish successfully.
    Every politician appeals to the greater good when this is in fact horribly abstract and justifies any policy which lines the pockets of the government.
    I can't appeal to common sense because justificationism is the only public game in town.
    Just recently I went on a Buddhist site and was asked for proof to show the "self" was a real thing!
  • Why do my beliefs need to be justified?
    Justification is an expression of authoritarian views. Does one have to justify one's pain?
    Life is not a court of law.
    A whole science has sprung up out of this legalistic mindset. And it's the lawyers and control freaks who profit excessively from this dogma.