The moralising mind-trap
2024-01-23 12:33 This error is about constantly mixing up is and ought.  If someone says it is in a certain way the person is supposed to mean people ought to do something too.  Someone disliking the imagined ought, denies that it is so.
On faulty mirror-thinking
2024-01-18 13:24 People can have such strange ideas about what others think and feel.  One does not have to go so far as to believe in the sameness myth.
The myth of the dangerous milieu
2023-12-24 20:33 Humans are not a particularly aggressive species.  Historically documented hunter-gatherers lie near the average for mammals.  At least if one looks at the risk of being killed by someone of the same species.
Self-control is overrated
2023-12-14 12:26 Something people tend to overestimate is self-control.  Bad habits and thought patterns are supposed to be easy to replace.  If it was that simple, why have they not already done so?
In defence of homosexuality
2023-12-07 12:29 Unfortunately, there are still plenty of people hostile to homosexuals.  They talk about homosexual behaviour which is supposed to be optional to everyone.
What is persecution?
2023-12-05 12:32 Most present-day Westerners have lived with a high degree of liberty for several generations. Many nowadays lack knowledge of what oppression means. It does not help regional customs has been called “oppressive”.
Ideas not part of science at all
2023-12-01 12:19 There are so many ideas creationists imagine their opponents to adhere to.  As I have explained before a lot of them are not part of evolution theory.  Additional ones are not part of present-day science at all.
Ideas not part of evolution theory
2023-11-29 11:11 Creationists think all science contradicting their own ideas belong to the same unified system of thought.  That unified system is imagined as constructed to allow life to change over time.
Why evolutionism is a creationist myth
2023-11-27 10:55 Creationists have one unified system for explaining physical reality, for what they consider morality and for the supernatural.  So they imagine their opponents to have something equivalent.
To make a difference between different ideologies
2023-11-21 13:45 Some seem to believe that if one is against them one is for everything they themselves hate.  The trouble is all those ideas are too different from each other.  First, people are ascribed opinions which they in fact don’t have.