TheOtherDave comments on Thwarting a Catholic conversion? - Less Wrong

8 Post author: Jay_Schweikert 18 June 2012 04:26PM

You are viewing a comment permalink. View the original post to see all comments and the full post content.

Comments (201)

You are viewing a single comment's thread. Show more comments above.

Comment author: TheOtherDave 24 June 2012 06:58:05PM 1 point [-]

Depends on what we mean by "allow for" conflicting beliefs, and it depends on what's at stake.

If we're trying to have lunch, and I believe hamburger tastes better than sausage, and you believe sausage tastes better than hamburger, there's no difficulty. You can order sausage, and I can order hamburger, and we're good.

If we're both trying to disarm a ticking bomb, and you believe cutting the red wire will disarm it and cutting the blue wire will set it off, and I believe cutting the red wire will set it off and the blue wire will disarm it, a different strategy is called for.

So one question becomes, what is disagreement about religious issues like? What does it mean to allow for different beliefs, and what's at stake?