Would you ever trust a liar again once that person was exposed? I’m not referring to a white lie where someone says something that is harmless, but a lie that has consequences for another person or group of people?
Skepticism
(Don’t) Listen and Believe
There’s been a lot of blogging recently on the Redford/Stollznow agreement taking a look at those that perpetuated the allegations against Radford and their sudden silence over the apparent fact of Stollznow retracting those same allegations.
Skepticism and Ideological Purity
Skepticisim has a problem. It’s become ideologically polarized. Ideology is not necessirly a bad attribute, but when it affects a person to the point where they refuse to even listen to a dissenting point of view, then it is toxic, especially to those claiming to be skeptics.
Is The Slymepit a Hate Site?
I’ve been seeing this a lot on the net recently. The accusations are not new, but it seems the chorus has picked up the tempo a bit.
As always, you’re comments are welcome.
Do You Judge Someone Based on Their Ideology?
This evening, I had a conversation with two people on Twitter. We ventured into ideology. I made the following statement:
https://twitter.com/jeh704/status/586747968935440384
And yes, I truly believe that. It’s way more important for me that people of whatever ideology (political, religious, but in this case political) use reason to make their argument than spout some polemic that I can look up in a dictionary.
I received this response:
https://twitter.com/Ellesun/status/586749895014424578
Thanks Skep! You’re one of those people I truly respect. A person that doesn’t judge anyone based on anything other than their actual words; And their actions.
It’s essential to me, as a skeptic, yes, even as a conservative, that we not pretend to make judgements based on someone’s stated ideology, but only on what they actually say. More importantly, what they do.
Conservative Skeptic 