echolalia wrote:Copehead wrote:Reason may be just one tool but it is the only truly useful one because it is the only one that gives you verifiable and repeatable results.
Shocking, blinkered and dogmatic.
And, sadly for you, true.
Copehead wrote:Common sense is worse than useless with complex problems
As long as you're the one who defines what's "common" and "complex", I take it.
Non-answer.
Copehead wrote:Solving problems with emotion - how does that even work?
A thing called "empathy".
Didn't answer the question just transfered it to
Solving problems with empathy - how does that work?
Copehead wrote:And experience is fine as long as you are happy doing things the way you have always done them and don't want to leave your nice warm cave.
Silly rhetoric.
Didn't answer the question again
I think we are seeing a pattern here, doesn't like the argument but can't counter it.
Decision: call it wrong without saying why its wrong.
Tactic of the Ning Nong Nang twathat through the years,
Copehead wrote:It is no coincidence that the 500 years that have seen reason elevated to this pre-eminent position have seen a massive and sustained bout of progress greater than any ever seen in human history isn't it?
Material progress, yes - not the only kind.
The only kind most people seem to be interested in
We have probably gone backwards in religion\
Thank fucking Dawkins!
Copehead wrote:It is OK to make personal decisions that aren't based on reason, we all do, and they are unlikely to be very important in the wider scheme of things
"Unlikely".
Yep.
Give me a decision of wide importance that wasn't based on reason and I may take you seriously.
All you are doing at the moment is repeating my statements and putting questions marks after them and that is worse than pathetic.
Copehead wrote:This idea that the West is fucked from top to bottom compared with any other time in its history is just too fucking stupid to even bother with.
Too fucking stupid for
you. But not for others. Why are you so intolerant of other ways of looking at the world?
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Maybe not for others, but obviously too confusing for you to deal with.
I am not intolerant of people making decisions on tarot, the bible, gut feeling, goat entrails, crystal balls, tea leaves or mystic Meg; as long as they don't affect me as well.