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Originally Posted by ISiddiqui
I know you meant this as some sort of sarcastic pushback, but I agree with it un-ironically.
That is the issue. We worship at the altar of "reason", a product of a hyper-Enlightenment philosophy that states we can determine everything objectively through the use of reason. It has led to a lot of problems when someone who has determined something "objectively" through reason runs into someone who has determined something entirely different "objectively" through reason. Naturally, two objective truths that are diametrically opposed cannot stand and the other person must be "wrong" - even in the case of things that have no real objective value.
Hence, people are getting back to the understanding that reason isn't the be all, end all, and that our emotions are just as important, if not more so. Our subjective feelings determine our beliefs much more than thinking through the problem and, in fact, in the vast majority of occasions we decide something by "our gut" and then rationalize it later. Subjectivity is more acknowledged and the limits of "by reason alone" are pointed out.
Btw, this movement I've described is called post-modernism.
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If you refuse to hold discussions in the realm of reason and rational thought then there's no basis for discussion - you're no better than the Taliban or the Salafists, forcing your interpretation of your beliefs onto others who may or may not believe it.