Comment on My Kind of Moral Responsibility

Wed, 04 May 2016 15:10:50 GMT

It's true that the difficulty of understanding a proof is relative to the one doing the understanding. But what I meant was different.

People don't (merely) "have difficulty in seeking the truth", or find the proofs "hard to verify". Rather, people are generally not interested in seeking truth on certain subjects, and not willing to accept truth that is contrary to their dearly held beliefs, regardless of the nature or difficulty of the proof that is presented to them. When I said that "people are not truth seekers", I didn't mean that they are bad at discovering the truth, but that on certain subjects they usually (act as if they) don't want to discover it at all.

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