> Maybe so. Do you know what that reason is? I don't have to. But something motivated him to act, and if he's consistent he must believe it's important. > Wou

> Maybe so. Do you know what that reason is? I don't have to. But something motivated him to act, and if he's consistent he must believe it's important. > Would you be willing to contradict my friend if he said otherwise? Yeah. Of course. The same as if he said anything else obviously counterfactual. I don't care to, because your friend isn't my windmill, but... > How is correctness determined? If we are discussing what other people believe, we are not in a position to define it for them. We don't need to. The original goalposts are merely that your friend believes or not. > But it is not up to us to assign belief systems to others, "You, you'll be Muslim", "you, Hindu", etc. Funny, but that's not what we're doing. We're pointing to someone praying and saying there must be a reason. Anything less would be denying your friend's humanity. I'm sure that he has what feels like a good reason for what he does...