>>23131
I got a score of 33.
Statements 8 and 18: What is faith?
You disagreed that:
It is quite reasonable to believe in the existence of a thing without even the possibility of evidence for its existence
But agreed that:
Atheism is a faith just like any other, because it is not possible to prove the non-existence of God
Perhaps I didn't understand this statement personally. My belif is that it's not possible to prove the existence of god, nor is it possible to prove the non existence of god, so I do not believe it's necessarily reasonable to believe in the existence of a thing without the possibility for evidence. You need evidence to make a good case for a notion, etc. I was moreso agreeing to atheism being a faith or religion like any other and I do not see this as a contradiction in the limited 2 option way that I answered it. Christianity is a religion and atheism is a religion aswell, neither religion can be proven, the lack of evidence doesn't outright disprove an argument, it only discredits it. Christianity could be correct if proven and atheism could be correct if proven, but we do not currently yet have evidence for either, though which one you believe is simply a matter of personal choice as of now.
Statements 19 and 7: Is the unnatural wrong?
13% of the people who have completed this activity have this tension in their beliefs.
You agreed that:
Proper sanitation and medicines are generally good for a society
And also that:
Homosexuality is wrong because it is unnatural
>You believe that something is wrong if it is unnatural. Yet you believe that sanitation and medicine are good. But aren't these also unnatural?
This whole block of text on the site is utter bollocks. Medicine and sanitation stops you from getting sick, being a homo gives you aids. Modern inventions are unnatural, but that doesn't make it wrong. I think the way this question was asked was flawed, homosexuality is unnatural but I think it's wrong because it doesn't provide any positive health benefits for people involved directly or indirectly. Medicine and sanitation does however.
Statements 12 and 30: Is the future fixed?
17% of the people who have completed this activity have this tension in their beliefs.
You agreed that:
Having made a choice, it is always possible that one might have chosen otherwise
And also that:
The future is fixed, how one's life unfolds is a matter of destiny
I don't believe in free will, certain things happen due to heavy influences over ones life, however there could be circumstances in which a choice could be different depending on the variables. Yes, fate and future is fixed, but there could be alternate fates and alternate realities in which you got somewhere later than usual and thus your entire day is different because perhaps a coin landed on the wrong side, etc. I'm not sure if that technically means free will is real, I just believe that fate is determined for the universe you live in and what universe you live in couldn't necessarily be changed. I'd need to discuss this further to get a better grasp on this topic specifically, I don't know much about it.
Statements 2 and 9: Can we please ourselves?
34% of the people who have completed this activity have this tension in their beliefs.
You agreed that:
So long as they do not harm others, individuals should be free to pursue their own ends
But disagreed that:
The possession of drugs for personal use should be decriminalised
When I answered this question I said yes to the first statement with the assumption that individuals should do whatever they want as long as they do not harm themselves and nobody else, but I must have answered this wrong perhaps.
>In order not to be in contradiction here, you must be able to make a convincing case that the personal use of drugs harms people other than the drug user.
Irrational behaviour and the overuse of drugs could cause harm to others in physical ways, if a parent is too busy taking drugs, they will neglect their child.
>More than this - you must also show that prohibited drug use harms others more than other legal activities such as smoking, drinking and driving cars, unless you want to argue that these should also be made criminal offences.
I think smoking, drinking, pornography etc should be made illegal. Not too sure about cars, they hate people on accident, accidents happen with just about anything... even drugs? That's a good argument to make, but I feel like smoking fucking up your lungs is not an accident, doing heroin making you a vegetable is not an accident, drinking alcohol and getting absolutely wasted is not really an accident, drugs have an intended cause of effect that make you a lesser version of yourself, whereas cars were designed as a tool like others to improve life, similar to sanitation and medicine. Drugs don't really improve life, well, an argument can be made that they do, but theres always a tradeoff, smoking kills your lungs, alcohol gives you brain damage and makes you act like a retard, fucks up your liver, certain drugs are insanely addictive etc.
>car accidents are among the leading killers in western society
They are absurdly dangerous boxes of death, yeah. But cars aren't really addictive, or are they? People who own cars never seem to stop using them... I personally don't have a car so it's not my problem, but cars might not be good for people, though I wonder how many of those car accidents are also related to drugs, maybe cars aren't the problem but texting while driving and taking drugs is the problem in that area of things.
