Not only beliefs should get special protection, religious beliefs should get special protection here because:
people are most strongly attached to them
people are really amazing at compartmentalizing them away
in every historical situation where any religious discrimination happened (almost always for some ’good reasons”), it had consequences ranging from bad to horrible; you would be extremely hard pressed to point any convincing counter-example
Dawkins’ argument is based on him totally not understanding that compartmentalization is default state of mind.
Ironically I think this only applies to his thinking about religion, I doubt he has this same compartmentalization blindness in other areas of his life.
Not only beliefs should get special protection, religious beliefs should get special protection here because:
people are most strongly attached to them
people are really amazing at compartmentalizing them away
in every historical situation where any religious discrimination happened (almost always for some ’good reasons”), it had consequences ranging from bad to horrible; you would be extremely hard pressed to point any convincing counter-example
Dawkins’ argument is based on him totally not understanding that compartmentalization is default state of mind.
Ironically I think this only applies to his thinking about religion, I doubt he has this same compartmentalization blindness in other areas of his life.
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