Destroyed With Facts and Logic
The popular atheist case against religion was already shallow, and the same habits carried straight over to feminism.
The popular atheist case against religion was already shallow, and the same habits carried straight over to feminism.
Leaving doesn’t require a confession, and you get to keep the weights. Here’s what actually has to change, and what it costs you.
The reason it kept checking out isn’t that it’s true. It’s that nothing you could have found would have counted against it.
You set an alarm for tomorrow morning. That small act contains an assumption nobody has ever managed to justify. The first post in a new series on open questions in philosophy.
There is a move in a conversation that doesn’t win the argument but ends it. In American constitutional debate, it has become the default. This is an essay about what that costs — not about guns.
The problem is not questions. It is the question with a cause already inside it — a post hoc inference the speaker never performs, so it can never be pinned on them.
The charge that agnostics are fence-sitters is older than the internet. What’s new is that half of it now comes from people whose own position is the same withholding.