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  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    Again I come back to my previous points which you discard as irrelevant and trolling - belief in a mother and father, however unsupported is not by default unethical or to be criticised.
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    Because a person has an unsupported belief - that does not make this action unethical.
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    This should not be confused with the label unethical.
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    To address your points- most things on this planet should be criticised. Specifically - critiqued.
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    Christoffer you liber me with trolling as if you live in a universe that exists without Courts and Barristers! :joke: Further you try to constrain me to an ill thought out argument with an opening premise that confuses evidence with rational deduction. The two things are completely different!
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    To levy with your basic premise, does an unfounded belief in God lead to bad things? Any more so than an unfounded belief in ones Mother and Father?
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    Christoffer, a basic premise of philosophy is asking questions and reviewing answers to glean a better understanding. You seem to miss some basic principles. Father - is the symbolic equivalent of God - Mother is a more contemporary symbolic equivalent of God. So far you have evaded answering any questions about your Mother and Father. Particularly your belief in them - be it symbolic or literal. Perhaps if yous started examining some of these metaphors you would glean a better understanding of the metaphysical.
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    give it a shot Christoffer and help human kind - is your mother your mother?
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    ah - but you have evaded answering the simple question that a child could answer!
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    Unsupported belief is unethical, — Christoffer

    I ASK AGAIN AS AN EXAMPLE - do you believe your mother is your mother and your father is your father, and what is your evidence? please do not evade the question
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    Belief 1, my mother is my mother with no evidence = bad things = false
    Surprised you didn't make that simile!
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    You prefer not to answer this then?
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    Undefined terms, — tim wood

    More importantly "evidence" is mixed up with and confused with "rational deduction". 2 completely different concepts - ask Columbo or Poirot for clarification

    I'd still like to see the OP respond to
    do you believe your mother and father are your mother and father and can you evidence this?
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    What does this matter to this argument? I see no relation — Christoffer

    Perhaps if you try to answer the question, you will see the relation.
    I repeat:
    do you believe your mother and father are your mother and father and can you evidence this?
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    Or to put it more bluntly do you believe your mother and father are your mother and father and can you evidence this? Likewise can you evidence that someone loves you.
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    Point being that your opening post demands evidence for something being true. On a human level how do you demand evidence that your partner loves you whilst maintaining that romance?
  • The unavoidable dangers of belief and believers responsibility of the dangers
    At what point do you demand evidence that your Mother and Father - are your Mother and Father?
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