A religious person does not just believe in God, s/he alieves in God, too, and logical arguments are rarely the best way to get through to the relevant alieving circuit in the brain.
If I were talking to a religious person elsewhere, that would make sense. But, this is LessWrong, and the respectful way to have this discussion here is to depend upon logic and rationalism. Anything else, and in my opinion we’d be talking down to him.
Sorry, we don’t live in a should-universe, either. If your goal is to influence a religious person’s perception of his/her faith, you do what it takes to get through, not complain that the other party is not playing by some real or imaginary rules. But hey, feel free to keep talking about logic, rationalism and respect. That’s what two-boxers do.
If I were talking to a religious person elsewhere, that would make sense. But, this is LessWrong, and the respectful way to have this discussion here is to depend upon logic and rationalism. Anything else, and in my opinion we’d be talking down to him.
Sorry, we don’t live in a should-universe, either. If your goal is to influence a religious person’s perception of his/her faith, you do what it takes to get through, not complain that the other party is not playing by some real or imaginary rules. But hey, feel free to keep talking about logic, rationalism and respect. That’s what two-boxers do.
Two boxers don’t only do wrong things, and it’s not obvious this is actually related to two-boxing.
Two-boxers live in a should-universe, given how they insist on following “logic” over evidence.