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> the only in bounds way to convince me to change my mind about them is to show me that my beliefs are inconsistent Have you not examined your beliefs at all?
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> the only in bounds way to convince me to change my mind about them is to show me that my beliefs are inconsistent
Have you not examined your beliefs at all? No 100% consistent belief system has even been invented, because the different principles that allow advanced society to exist conflict with each other - duty to the collective, freedom, equality, etc.
Should the tolerant, tolerate people who are Nazis?
Should people be forced to serve in the army against their will to defent freedom?
Should you have the freedom to choose the more expensive lawyer, and if so should the law apply equally to the rich and the poor?
the examples go on forever.
- ouid 4y agoIt's trivially easy to create a consistent belief system. Simply have no beliefs. The mutually exclusive properties are consistency and completeness (although these can be mutually satisfied in certain limited circumstances not likely to be relevant here). You can have no belief at all about abortion. In that case, you are free to choose one as an axiom, although you are also free to not choose. If you choose a belief about abortion as an axiom and the result is that you end up believing both a thing and its negation, then you will need to abandon one of the necessary premises for that construction.
- ClumsyPilot 4y ago> It's trivially easy to create a consistent belief system. Simply have no beliefs The point of a belief system is to be of practically usefull in life, not to.. whatever are we achieving here exactly?