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StephenBuckley  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Brian Leiter, “Why Tolerate Religion?”

What? Maybe I'm not phrasing this well enough.

Here's what I'm asking: There is someone whom you know, empirically, or through whatever means you find convincing, is smarter than you. That someone is also less likely to make mistakes than you. Why would you trust yourself over that person rationally?





briandmyers  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Why would you trust yourself over that person rationally?

Because I know my own motivations, and I do not know theirs.

user-inactivated  ·  4377 days ago  ·  link  ·  

You seemed to me to be equating authority and intelligence unnecessarily. My bad.