Reply #71: If something is provably false, I'm ok with "intolerantly" saying so. [View All]

[Selwynn]

It has nothing to do with "intolerance" of someone's belief system. It has nothing to do with saying "hey your faith based belief is wrong and my faith based belief is right." It has to do with saying, "your statement is logically false, and I can prove it - here's how." That's not belief "intolerance" that's just good old scientific argumentation by counterexample, conjecture and refutation, and falsification principles of critical reasoning in action.

What you're meaning to say, is that in my choice of words I am not tactful. Ok, I wasn't tactful. I stated, not once, not twice, but three times now that my subject line was meant to be an attention grabber. The text of my argument was not rude or shocking at all. But it has nothing to do with "intolerance" to prove something false.

If someone says, "dude, the earth is flat and human kids are born from elephants!" It is not "intolerant" of me to say, "you know, I can prove to you that those claims are provably false - there is actually an objective, empirically observable answer here, and I can show you that it is not what you claim." When you can prove, with concrete evidence, a claim false. That's not being "intolerant" of an impossible to prove or disprove belief. It's just good intellect.

Well you know, come to think of it, I guess if you want to say that I am "intolerant" of provable, logically demonstrable, cut and dry falsehoods, then I can live with that.