Nah. The principle irritates me, though. As if killing thousands of virtual adults isn't a problem, but try to murder a virtual child and it's a moral atrocity.
Yeah, like all religion.
I'd define the kind of belief we're talking about as "accepting a proposition as true". Evidence is really the only good reason for believing anything. There are, of course, a myriad of bad reasons. If we define belief as "accepting ideas without good evidence" then...
Depending on your definition of "belief". There are good reasons and bad reasons for believing. If your define belief as accepting ideas without good evidence then belief itself could be inherently illogical.
I'm terrible at doing math and maybe almost as bad at understanding what math actually...
It's a belief about religion, but a religious belief? I don't know... unless your religion requires you to hold the position.
Oh man, everything is super crazy, and this freaks me out all the time. But crazy shit is proven by lots of evidence. If we don't require a higher standard of...
So you only believe it because it's comforting? That's a very poor reason to accept something as true.
How is rejecting the claim of an afterlife a religious belief? When there is no evidence to support something the rational position is to reject the claim. That doesn't mean dogmatically...
This. Analogy win.
Many are saying that there are differences between the sexes and we shouldn't deny that. This is a very irrelevant point. Because men and women are different we should force them to conform to society's expectation of what they should wear? What does men and women being...
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