In Clark's Naturalism vs. Supernaturalism he discussed totalitarianism for a good portion of the essay. In my Q&A I went off on a tangent about how ridiculous Sam Harris's empirical totalitarian view of faith is. And in this blog post I want to ask the question of why is it so important for everybody to have the same beliefs? Why is it such an Utopian ideal? This thought of: I am right and everyone else who doesn't feel the same way is wrong, seems quite ignorant to me.
How boring would that be if everyone had the same beliefs? Extremely! There would be no philosophers because everyone would have the same philosophy and possibly worse there would be no debating! (Oh, the horror!) Being unique is the beauty of the mind, the beauty of being human. Why then do some people want everyone to agree with them? Sure it would be really annoying if nobody agreed with you, but if everybody did, it would be annoying too. So somebody please answer, Why is it so important for us to have the same beliefs?
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I'll be replying to your post.
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