Hello Walter,
BCS wrote:
I think the answers is to always be willing to entertain /rational/
debate on anything. The thought being that truth will always stand up
to reason, so unless you *want* to believe something false, you have
nothing to fear in reason
But that's not the way people work. People have a vested interest in
their beliefs. If you built your life around X being true, and someone
drops by with evidence that X is false, what's your reaction going to
be?
Rigorous debate, I hope.
Stone the guy.
When that happens, you have an problem (and that was what I was asserting)
OTOH when someone shows up and starts saying your whole society is bogus
*and can't support his clams* I'm just fine with getting rid of them (preferably
leaving them the option of changing there mind at some later date).
