I don’t think you’ve understood what hypothetical apostasy is meant to be.
They’re meant to be against your current views. If you currently want to cure aging, as your most cherished belief, your hypothetical apostasy should be against SENS. So you definitely wouldn’t want to put it into practice! (Unless you were convinced by it and changed your mind, in which case you’d now need a new hypothetical apostasy—your old one is now no longer hypothetical.
They’re meant to be private. If your utmost goal is to help the Greens win, writing a public, very convincing list of reasons why the Blues are right could be disasterous!
An apostasy is when you leave the group you were once a member of (normally a religion). Considered very sinful by some—better never to have been a believer than to have seen and turned from the light.
I don’t think you’ve understood what hypothetical apostasy is meant to be.
They’re meant to be against your current views. If you currently want to cure aging, as your most cherished belief, your hypothetical apostasy should be against SENS. So you definitely wouldn’t want to put it into practice! (Unless you were convinced by it and changed your mind, in which case you’d now need a new hypothetical apostasy—your old one is now no longer hypothetical.
They’re meant to be private. If your utmost goal is to help the Greens win, writing a public, very convincing list of reasons why the Blues are right could be disasterous!
Thanks for clearing up my confusion.
Glad to help!
Actually, I think the issue is a misunderstanding of what apostasy is in the first place.
An apostasy is when you leave the group you were once a member of (normally a religion). Considered very sinful by some—better never to have been a believer than to have seen and turned from the light.