A lot of beliefs we have are "load-bearing" - for example, some Christians think they have to believe in God in order to have a sense of morality. "If I lose my faith, what's to stop me from being a bad person?" So they never truly consider changing their beliefs, because the-
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For you, is there no room here for empirical disagreement? Or is that always preemptively trapped in this kind of counter-moralizing you offer? I agree that it’s better to know the truth, even if offends us, but your points don’t feel airtight enough to warrant these assumptions.
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This is, IMO, an inadequate steelman of your opposition. It’s not difficult to hold that IQ is a vague & complicated thing (as I do) whilst also believing that whatever future investigations (read: more sophisticated) may reveal shouldn’t hold weight when it comes to moral worth.
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Sure, I'm not arguing it's not complicated, only that we should walk straight into the evidence, whatever it is, and trust that it'll be okay.
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People can stand what is true, for they are already enduring it.https://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Litany_of_Gendlin …
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What if Colonel Jessup was right, and people really can't handle the truth? What if some truth causes such a moral panic that it leads to genocide? Is truth more important than social consequences? And if yes, what is it for?
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Is there a name for this "afraid of going into the truth" thing? I see it a lot. The other big one is feminists who don't want to allow studies that might reveal inherent differences between men and women
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I think we should give a name to it so we can point at it and say HEY you're doing the thing
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