The very best thing about this podcast is Megan Phelps-Roper's demonstrated commitment to pluralism, and to the ego-destruction that comes from her six questions. Here they are, copied from a transcript I found online, and pasted in hopes Phelps-Roper will at some point put them out in written form herself!
The very best thing about this podcast is Megan Phelps-Roper's demonstrated commitment to pluralism, and to the ego-destruction that comes from her six questions. Here they are, copied from a transcript I found online, and pasted in hopes Phelps-Roper will at some point put them out in written form herself!
1. Are you capable of entertaining real doubt about your beliefs or are you operating from a position of certainty?
2. Can you articulate the evidence that you would need to see in order to change your position? Or is your perspective unfalsifiable?
3. Can you articulate your opponent's perspective in a way that they would recognize, or are you straw manning?
4. Are you attacking ideas or attacking the people who hold them always the ideas?
5. Are you willing to cut off close relationships with people who disagree with you, particularly over relatively small points of contention?
6. Are you willing to use extraordinary means against people who disagree with you? And by that, I mean, things like forcing people out of their jobs or homes? Violence or threats of violence? Celebrating misfortune and tragedy?
A brilliant and challenging set of questions--thank you!
The very best thing about this podcast is Megan Phelps-Roper's demonstrated commitment to pluralism, and to the ego-destruction that comes from her six questions. Here they are, copied from a transcript I found online, and pasted in hopes Phelps-Roper will at some point put them out in written form herself!
1. Are you capable of entertaining real doubt about your beliefs or are you operating from a position of certainty?
2. Can you articulate the evidence that you would need to see in order to change your position? Or is your perspective unfalsifiable?
3. Can you articulate your opponent's perspective in a way that they would recognize, or are you straw manning?
4. Are you attacking ideas or attacking the people who hold them always the ideas?
5. Are you willing to cut off close relationships with people who disagree with you, particularly over relatively small points of contention?
6. Are you willing to use extraordinary means against people who disagree with you? And by that, I mean, things like forcing people out of their jobs or homes? Violence or threats of violence? Celebrating misfortune and tragedy?
A brilliant and challenging set of questions--thank you!