I’m clearly being dramatic in my post. I didn’t suddenly forget since you’ve made it a point to go out of your way and say you won’t argue any specific case.
No i d understood your point from the beginning that we should t mock people for their beliefs. The point of my post was when it’s really piled up like that, why shouldn’t we? Which you did answer now, and we’re even more dramatic than me about it. This is not dividing the country lol
Thinking people are being honest about the division between the scientifically-minded and those who are trusting their gut reactions more. Obviously we want everybody to be scientifically minded but something has gone wrong.
One of the things that has gone wrong is a polarization on both sides where contempt prior to investigation rules each side's perception of the other. Contempt prior to investigation on the part of the scientifically-minded is seen rightly as hypocrisy and hubris by those who are trusting their gut reactions. When that hubris also includes slander, dishonesty, misrepresentation and lying, it creates a very powerful divide among the two groups.
Mocking and denigration and casting insults furthers that divide and creates a barrier where neither side can see the good or truth in the other side's positions... or even wants to.
These threads serve as a perfect microcosm of that macrocosm and play out the dynamics perfectly. Both sides are causing deep harm and division. Both sides are in the wrong and both sides have a part to play in the solution. It just depends what's motivating us whether or not we want the solution and whether or not we want it to take the kinds of actions that lead to solution rather than division.
The only motive I can find for mocking from either position is emotionalism and pettiness and immaturity. There seems to be no reasoned purpose behind it.
I am part of a large meditation community with theological connections to groups all over the country and I can tell you that the world's philosophers are thinking about this issue and so are we. and it is so obviously an important one. We're slowly dividing as a country and this is one of the factors that is causing it. And its an easy one to fix because it's root cause is just pettiness and emotionalism and bullying. Some of the most base motivations we have as human beings.
Those of us on a meditation path can see no reason whatsoever why we wouldn't already be ceasing this ridiculousness, but it seems a whole sect of the country on both sides is hell bent on being total assholes and further dividing everyone from one another and causing harm rather than good in the world.
This conversation is being had by lots of thinking people as I have said and it's part of a larger discussion around the damage social media is doing where people seem to think that being an a****** all day on social media doesn't make one an a****** in real life naively forgetting that they're actually being that person a great deal of the time and forming their character that way and poisoning the world that way.
The root cause of all of this is not reason but emotionalism and emotional immaturity.
