Second, beliefs are true or false individually; if you put a large set of beliefs (I am not ever sure what exactly qualifies as a “PUA belief” these days) in one package, and try to reject the whole package (or accept it), you will almost certainly acquire some false beliefs.
Third, framing the statements as somehow belonging to an outgroup already removes rationality from the debate. (Also, what happens if some belief is shared, for example, by both evolutionary psychologists and PUAs? Do these also get dismissed as “PUA beliefs”? What if PUAs also believe that 2+2=4? Because I suspect many of them do.)
Do we really need to take the whole package in? If we have (n) beliefs, some number of them might be useful, some of them would be less effective than advertised, and some could be useless if not harmful.
No, it definitely shouldn’t be.
First, you already have the bottom line written.
Second, beliefs are true or false individually; if you put a large set of beliefs (I am not ever sure what exactly qualifies as a “PUA belief” these days) in one package, and try to reject the whole package (or accept it), you will almost certainly acquire some false beliefs.
Third, framing the statements as somehow belonging to an outgroup already removes rationality from the debate. (Also, what happens if some belief is shared, for example, by both evolutionary psychologists and PUAs? Do these also get dismissed as “PUA beliefs”? What if PUAs also believe that 2+2=4? Because I suspect many of them do.)
Do we really need to take the whole package in? If we have (n) beliefs, some number of them might be useful, some of them would be less effective than advertised, and some could be useless if not harmful.
Sure, there are at least two ways how to go stupid about this.
One of them is saying “here is a package that contains at least one true statement, I am going to adopt it as a whole”.
Other is hearing a statement in isolation and saying “hey, this statement is a part of this package, and we reject that package as a whole, right?”