Rational beliefs should be able to withstand scrutiny and opposing arguments. The inability to do so indicates that the belief is more about personal bias and emotional investment rather than objective analysis.
It’s really our duty to be familiar with both sides and be ready to debate.
Of course, exception guy will be in the thread pointing out extreme edge cases in which we all agree that there is no alternative to the accepted opinion (“R*pe is bad, mmkay?”)… But this is besides the point.
LOL, bro, is your actual counter to this putting on the fedora and flexing the neckbeard as hard as you can?
Religion is clearly rubbish! How can you argue against that!
If you were actually an atheist of any caliber, you would be familiar with apologetics enough to not be so dismissive in an inadvertently hilarious manner.
Just amazing - the government literally going to bat for the sake of concert goers who demand hotel rooms.
Can’t imagine working through drug addiction and getting clean enough to be given a hotel room, and then eagerly trying to find some form of employment to become stable, and then your case worker is like *What do you think about spending a few days in Aberdeen…? WIth the Taylor Swift concert and all… There’s a need for this room for someone else…"
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If you can't make a single sincere counter-argument to your own belief, your stance is driven by emotion rather than logic
Rational beliefs should be able to withstand scrutiny and opposing arguments. The inability to do so indicates that the belief is more about personal bias and emotional investment rather than objective analysis.
Texas Teacher Accused of Filming Pornographic Videos in Elementary School (www.complex.com)
A Texas educator landed in hot water after she was accused of filming pornographic videos on campus....
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A Brit dad allegedly killed a Russian paedophile with a single punch after saying he wanted to have sex with his underage daughter....
Unpacking Trump’s top claims about why his hush money trial was ‘rigged’ (nypost.com)
This is the part that gets me:...
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Cambodia will start work on a US$1.7-billion canal linking the capital Phnom Penh to the sea in August (e.vnexpress.net)
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Why is Nikki Haley scrawling genocidal messages on Israeli bombs? (Opinion Piece by Moustafa Bayoumi) (www.theguardian.com)
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Wild tweet....
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Some very cool stuff buried in the article:...
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