For frigging sure. A commitment to a position without *any* evidence is usually pretty bad (and since you're committed without knowing what it is you're wide open to manipulation).
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In religion, faith is explicitly a virtue and overcoming doubt and standing firm in your faith despite evidence against it is especially virtuous. We also get this virtuous feeling when we stand by things that are meaningful to us despite lack of evidence or evidence to contrary
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For me, this has mostly been people. I have stood by them and continued believing in them despite evidence that I shouldn't because they were important to me. Also, feminism. It took me a long time to accept the abundant evidence that it had gone off the rails.
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This wasn't simply being mistaken. I was morally motivated to believe against the evidence and felt that I was being a good and loyal person for doing so. 'I have faith in you no matter what anyone says.'
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Yep you are nailing this trust v faith thing. A tiresome argument often made by the religious “even atheists have faith”.
#eyeroll This is just changing the def’n of faith, which is not trust.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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These chaps are getting the benefit to far too much time on their education. That said, it's a peach to behold each of them get a gentle, reasoned but comprehensive schooling / thrashing.
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You have a faith in the correspondence of propositions to evidence, which you have no external reason to believe, except that it makes sense to you and that it's difficult to function day-to-day of you don't.
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