>. Until he actually tries to wrap someone else in plastic without consent, I don't see why we should > get a say in the viability of his beliefs.
I would say, until he tries to wrap someone else in plastic without consent, I don't see why we should try to control his behavior in a way that violates his Agency.
But to "get a say in the viability of his beliefs" ? My say in the viability of his beliefs, if I take your meaning correctly, comes with no chains, and no obligatory behavior or threat of force. I will not use power to enforce my opinion about said viability.... but I DO have an opinion, and intend to express it.
I think wrapping yourself in plastic to maintain a ritual purity because you are in an aluminum tube that might be several thousand feet above a plot of land that contains dead people... is absurd. I think the idea of ritual purity is itself absurd.
But then, I think the transubstantiation of communion is absurd. I think the idea that Mohamed spoke with an Angel is absurd.
And, I also say, that I am a bit unsettled about people with extreme commitment to maintaining ritual purity, because many similar ideas are at the root of taboos, social behaviors, and pogroms that oppress and injure other people.
But, so long as the behavior is inward directed, I am merely unsettled, rather than threatened in a way that compels action.
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> get a say in the viability of his beliefs.
I would say, until he tries to wrap someone else in plastic without consent, I don't see why we should try to control his behavior in a way that violates his Agency.
But to "get a say in the viability of his beliefs" ? My say in the viability of his beliefs, if I take your meaning correctly, comes with no chains, and no obligatory behavior or threat of force. I will not use power to enforce my opinion about said viability.... but I DO have an opinion, and intend to express it.
I think wrapping yourself in plastic to maintain a ritual purity because you are in an aluminum tube that might be several thousand feet above a plot of land that contains dead people... is absurd. I think the idea of ritual purity is itself absurd.
But then, I think the transubstantiation of communion is absurd. I think the idea that Mohamed spoke with an Angel is absurd.
And, I also say, that I am a bit unsettled about people with extreme commitment to maintaining ritual purity, because many similar ideas are at the root of taboos, social behaviors, and pogroms that oppress and injure other people.
But, so long as the behavior is inward directed, I am merely unsettled, rather than threatened in a way that compels action.