“People are generally good.” and “People are generally awful.” It depends.
“There is a God in the sky who has a plan.” What “God” and what plan?
“Saturated fat is bad for you.” Yeah you fell for largest public health scam in history.
“If you travel and see other cultures you will grow, duude!” Nope. If a donkey goes traveling, it doesn’t come back as a horse.
“Get married and make a family, you’ll become a better human being.” It depends. It’s not automatic.
“Get a hobby. It’ll make you better/peaceful/whatever.” An activity in itself doesn’t do anything to you. It’s how YOU approach anything that matters.
…and so on and so forth.
That because the human species has done so much, it must be good.
And the usual bit about your productive output being the measure of your value.
That the scientific method is fine as it is.
On top of that, quantum mechanics, Einstein’s theories of relativity, Maxwell’s equations, Newton’s law of gravity, although Einstein “disproved” this, they both make the same mistake, and more.
And before people false dichitomize me into the religious camp, the best and easiest example I will always give of what’s wrong with these theories is to take the holy trinity, argue what fallacy is taking place when one introduces a three-but-really-one monotheist deity as truth and then expand on that fallacy to take down the photon’s two-but-really-one wave-particle duality.
All said and done. We clearly have only scratched surface of scientific knowledge. So it is pretty much a safe bet that the vast majority of what we “know” is wrong. Especially anything complicated.
existence of god obviously.
Not a popular belief here on Lemmy. Can you try something that hits a little closer to home?
im not even sure I know enough about how the fediveration skews to be sure.
If you want to feel out the edges of the consensus here, see what gets removed.
Ok, on second thought that may be difficult.
Travelling broadens your mind.
Communism killed 100
millionbilliontrillion people.Also that ethnostates are bad.
Could you just say one? For conversation’s sake.
Here are four
You people really do conform to the consensus very tightly.
To paraphrase Stephen Colbert, reality has a well-known socialist bias. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_socialism
Just say it.
I don’t know what you imagine I’m holding back.
The actual disagreeing opinion. Stated plainly.
That it’s fine to harm another so long as you enjoy it’s flesh and muscle.
That we shouldn’t care about anything besides our own worldly/ material whims.
I think that might be stress talking.
Everybody agrees that goodness and beauty matter. All of our stories and movies and ideologies say as much.
But when stressed. When security is at stake. And especially if nobody is watching. Yeah we can become selfish little rats.
My point is we go up and down like that. From human to rat and back again. Depending on our stress level.
The state: better manufacture endless crises then!
That’s a very deep, generous and insightful post. Thanks. 👍
