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  • Every person is presumed innocent until proven guilty in court.

    No. I don’t need to take you to court to prove that you can’t spell ‘escape’ in your username, for example. It’s just an obvious fact.

    You can’t reduce reality to legal issues and then the fact of having committed an unpleasant actions to legal outcomes. Israel could literally blow up courts which start proceedings in terms of international law against the country, for example, that wouldn’t alter the reality of the evidence against Israel.

    If you hit me with your car and I die, and there are witness, you did wrong regardless of what the court says.















  • If anyone told me “Zeus was actually based on some guy from early Greece that we have historical evidence for” my reaction to that would be more along the line of “Oh, that’s interesting” instead of “Your evidence better be pretty overwhelming!”

    You might react to tomatoes with an intense dislike, this does not stop them from being food. Your psychological preferences have no sway on facts.

    In a similar way, do not assume your own excessive open-mindedness to statements made with a lack of evidence means that this is ‘correct’. Your preferences are not moral laws.

    I’m autistic and logical. I don’t identify as a human. I don’t care what the majority thinks. I’m not going to go along with something because of the status quo. The status quo doesn’t feed children, it creates and exploits an underclass, it victim-blames for structural inequality. I distrust the status quo.

    Every historian in the world could say we accept that “Jesus existed as a real man.” I don’t believe that without evidence.

    Open-mindedness means being receptive to evidence, not being receptive to belief in the face of a lack of it.




  • Why else would you be so offended

    I don’t think the horror film character Candyman exists, either, but that’s not because I’m offended by a horrifically murdered black man becoming a personification of vengeance.

    Therefore I question whether it is necessary that not thinking something always exists denotes being offended. How many gods and religions do you not believe in? Do you find those offensive? If yes, that’s your problem, not mine - do not hold me to your standards in this regard.

     

    I don’t think you exist and are a wholesale invention. There’s no proof to the contrary.

    Seek psychiatric help, you’re being rude to people that don’t exist. Also, you (for some reason) invent figments of your imagination that are more rational than you, which is messed up.