In the Christians in EA group, someone (who had AFAIK never posted before) posted a 60-page document. This document outlined his theory that the best EA cause was to support the propogation of Mormonism, because any civilization based on the equality of men and women was doomed to fail (he saw Islam as another viable civilization, but inferior to Mormonism).
He wanted me to debate him point by point in his argument. I was not willing to argue with him, because it was a waste of my time.
What do you think is the best way to handle this from an ‘epistemic honour’ approach?
As with all ideas, the best way to handle it is to go over it if you have time or interest in doing so; if not, then say that you do not have time or interest in justifying your opinion. I don’t see what the dilemma is. I don’t think toonalfrink was saying “you should spend a lot of time debating everyone you disagree with,” nor were they saying “you shouldn’t have an opinion about something unless you spend a lot of time debating it;” those aren’t implied by that conception of Epistemic Honor.
Growing the Mormon church is not an extreme viewpoint.
In the Christians in EA group, someone (who had AFAIK never posted before) posted a 60-page document. This document outlined his theory that the best EA cause was to support the propogation of Mormonism, because any civilization based on the equality of men and women was doomed to fail (he saw Islam as another viable civilization, but inferior to Mormonism).
He wanted me to debate him point by point in his argument. I was not willing to argue with him, because it was a waste of my time.
What do you think is the best way to handle this from an ‘epistemic honour’ approach?
As with all ideas, the best way to handle it is to go over it if you have time or interest in doing so; if not, then say that you do not have time or interest in justifying your opinion. I don’t see what the dilemma is. I don’t think toonalfrink was saying “you should spend a lot of time debating everyone you disagree with,” nor were they saying “you shouldn’t have an opinion about something unless you spend a lot of time debating it;” those aren’t implied by that conception of Epistemic Honor.
Growing the Mormon church is not an extreme viewpoint.