you are confusing wanting “truth” with wanting the beliefs you consider to be true.
What a presumptuous, useless thing to say. Why don’t you explain how you’ve deduced my confusion from that one sentence.
Apparently you think I’ve got a particular truth in mind and I’m accusing those who disagree with me of deprioritizing truth. Even if I was, why does that indicate confusion on my part? If I wanted to accuse them of being wrong because they were stupid, or of being wrong because they lacked the evidence, I would have said so. I’m accusing them of being wrong because it’s more fun and convenient than being right. Seeing as how you don’t know any specifics of what the argument is about, on what basis have you determined my confusion?
But actually I didn’t have a particular controversy in mind. I’m claiming people deprioritize truth about smaller questions than “is there a god”, or “does socialism work”. I’m guessing they deprioritize truth even on things that are much closer to home, like “am i competent?”, or “do people like me”, or “is my company on the path the success?”
Come to think of it, that sounds quite testable. I wonder if anyone’s done an experiment....
OK. I thought I was arguing with another version of “if you’re not rational, then you don’t value truth”. That was presumptuous. And you’re right, there is this other category of being rather indifferent or careless with respect to the truth, especially if the truth may be unpleasant or require work. I observe I have a knee jerk reaction to defend the “them” group whenever there is any kind of anti-”other-people” argument… and it is not my intention to be an indiscriminate bleeding-heart defender, so I need to consider this.
What a presumptuous, useless thing to say. Why don’t you explain how you’ve deduced my confusion from that one sentence.
Apparently you think I’ve got a particular truth in mind and I’m accusing those who disagree with me of deprioritizing truth. Even if I was, why does that indicate confusion on my part? If I wanted to accuse them of being wrong because they were stupid, or of being wrong because they lacked the evidence, I would have said so. I’m accusing them of being wrong because it’s more fun and convenient than being right. Seeing as how you don’t know any specifics of what the argument is about, on what basis have you determined my confusion?
But actually I didn’t have a particular controversy in mind. I’m claiming people deprioritize truth about smaller questions than “is there a god”, or “does socialism work”. I’m guessing they deprioritize truth even on things that are much closer to home, like “am i competent?”, or “do people like me”, or “is my company on the path the success?”
Come to think of it, that sounds quite testable. I wonder if anyone’s done an experiment....
OK. I thought I was arguing with another version of “if you’re not rational, then you don’t value truth”. That was presumptuous. And you’re right, there is this other category of being rather indifferent or careless with respect to the truth, especially if the truth may be unpleasant or require work. I observe I have a knee jerk reaction to defend the “them” group whenever there is any kind of anti-”other-people” argument… and it is not my intention to be an indiscriminate bleeding-heart defender, so I need to consider this.