I think this might be it. Currently dealing with (but now ignoring) someone who claims one cannot consistently support nondiscrimination by gender, race & sexuality AND evidence based epistemology coz of evidence that we can't treat men & women the same re: reproductive health.https://twitter.com/ArthurCDent/status/1053772614823424000 …
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Interestingly, while I was diagnosed with OCD, my father & daughter both suspected by doctors of having Asperger's. We don't know coz neither give a fuck & refuse testing. Either way, 3 generations of us now intent on bringing order & clarity to shit whether you like it or not.
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I do think a lot of whether you are likely to have a brain which requires things to work logically in demonstrable steps or whether you are fulfilled by ambiguous & fluffy allusive thinking with loose connections comes down to personality type. Which is discouraging.
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It means we can't teach the fluffy thinkers to find logical reasoning and evidence-based epistemology satisfying and they cannot teach us to value spiritual/affective/mythical/metaphysical notions of truth. We just have to glare at each other and mutter darkly.
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Of course, many people manage to do both. I see this most strongly in some believing Jewish friends whose working lives require strong skills of analytical reasoning but then they take a hiatus at least once a week to be all spiritual and fluffy. Tut on them. "Tut," I say.
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My daughter does the same - symbolic logic and Boolean logic are her creatures. I fear for her when she goes to university because she looks so innocent and I fear that people may react badly when they say something stupid and receive sarcasm in response.
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:( I fear too. I have seen mine explain to someone why their argument for the existence of God didn't work in the same way she'd explain why their coding hadn't. Had to spend a lot of time explaining the things that hurt feelings and get strong reactions intellectually.
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