[extropy-chat] Critical Thinking

Lee Corbin lcorbin at tsoft.com
Thu Mar 9 15:33:06 UTC 2006


Olga writes

> [Samantha writes]
> > [Lee wrote]
> >
> > > And if one more time I hear religionists or nonbelievers
> > > denouncing each other as "irrational" I may lose my supper.
> > > *Beliefs* may be irrational; but we need to reserve the
> > > criticism of being irrational for people who should be
> > > locked up for their own good.
> 
> > Why?
> 
> Their own good?  Our own good?  And who - in your opinion, Lee - would those 
> people be?

I meant to indicate people whose lives are so dysfunctional
that either they realize something is wrong or they're such
a menace to others that the inevitable reactions of others
will bring them to harm.

Nice to hear from you again, Olga, after all this time!

Lee




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