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I never conflated opinion, everything is opinion there are just more or less circumstantial evidences, and it varies widely based on your priors and worldview.

I never conflated opinion, everything is opinion there are just more or less circumstantial evidences, and it varies widely based on your priors and worldview. I just don’t think YouTube should be silencing them. If we have to have some private unelected board at YouTube deciding where opinion ends and fact begins, that’s dystopia. People state opinions as facts all the time. “It was the United States gov” is an opinion it’s just a colloquial American thing to say it in that style. Their real belief may be that it’s actually only 90% probable, and their threshold for wording it as certain is lower than yours. Only a fool listens to a strongly stated opinion, even when it’s worded as though it’s a fact, and isn’t skeptical. If we designed our society to cater to the greatest fool, we’d have ridiculous rules all over. I don’t want that. I actually think the main difference is I have a lot more faith in the intelligence of the average joe, and it seems people who don’t get real worried that their “better” opinions will drown out. I don’t think so. And I’ve seen the people with the right opinions be wrong too often lately to ever trust them.

BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
> Only a fool listens to a strongly stated opinion, even when it’s worded as though it’s a fact, and not be skeptic. I think I have bad news for you about the world, then. > If we designed our society to cater to the greatest fool, we’d have ridiculous rules all over. What is your plan for a society like the one we currently live in that appears to be mostly greatest fools? > I actually think the main difference is I have a lot more faith in the intelligence of the average joe According to polling, in the US the average joe claims that God directly created humans in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years and that evolution is, to put a common phrase in their mouths, "fake news". https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creati... Feel whatever you want about the benefit of religion, that belief is based on something entirely extraneous to evidence.
- nwienert 5y ago
  > I think I have bad news for you, then. Exactly. As I had edited in my last comment before I saw your reply, you have a huge lack of faith in the intelligence of others (that, or a big ego). Believing in religion got humans a lot further due to in-group cooperation. Their exact beliefs may look wrong, but the way it makes them act is more right than atheism or anything else. In your world talking about any religion would be banned, and what a sad world that’d be.
  - BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
    > you have a huge lack of faith in the intelligence of others (that, or a big ego) Column A, Column B. > In your world talking about any religion would be banned, and what a sad world that’d be. I promise I wouldn't ban talking about religion. > Their exact beliefs may look wrong, but the way it makes them act is more right than atheism or anything else. Secular humanists would strongly disagree.

BugsJustFindMe 5y ago

> Only a fool listens to a strongly stated opinion, even when it’s worded as though it’s a fact, and not be skeptic. I think I have bad news for you about the world, then. > If we designed our society to cater to the greatest fool, we’d have ridiculous rules all over. What is your plan for a society like the one we currently live in that appears to be mostly greatest fools? > I actually think the main difference is I have a lot more faith in the intelligence of the average joe According to polling, in the US the average joe claims that God directly created humans in their present form within roughly the past 10,000 years and that evolution is, to put a common phrase in their mouths, "fake news". https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creationism.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/261680/americans-believe-creati... Feel whatever you want about the benefit of religion, that belief is based on something entirely extraneous to evidence.

nwienert 5y ago
> I think I have bad news for you, then. Exactly. As I had edited in my last comment before I saw your reply, you have a huge lack of faith in the intelligence of others (that, or a big ego). Believing in religion got humans a lot further due to in-group cooperation. Their exact beliefs may look wrong, but the way it makes them act is more right than atheism or anything else. In your world talking about any religion would be banned, and what a sad world that’d be.
- BugsJustFindMe 5y ago
  > you have a huge lack of faith in the intelligence of others (that, or a big ego) Column A, Column B. > In your world talking about any religion would be banned, and what a sad world that’d be. I promise I wouldn't ban talking about religion. > Their exact beliefs may look wrong, but the way it makes them act is more right than atheism or anything else. Secular humanists would strongly disagree.