One of the most common objections to an evidence-based viewpoint is that there’s no evidence for an evidence-based viewpoint. After all, aren’t all axioms equally faith-based? Aren’t we all believing in something, whether we believe in the existence of God, the existence of Mother Gaia, or the fact that our thoughts have any relation to reality whatsoever?
Perhaps.
So if someone tells you that all axioms are equal, that an evidence-based viewpoint is equal to one based on any axiom they happen to stumble over and enjoy using, feel free to give them a sharp smack. Maybe break something they own, or clog their toilet. If they complain, why, aren’t all axioms equal? Don’t all metaphysical positions share the same stature due to the fact that they can’t help but arise from nothing?
Because if someone tells you they don’t believe in evidence, feel free to fuck with them to your heart’s content. After all, there’s no evidence you’re doing it, right? And if their argument is logically consistent, they shouldn’t care that you just took a huge deuce in their sink. They can just pick another axiom.
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