Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Penn Jillette's Take on Atheism, Libertarianism, Terrorism

I was getting ready to write something like this for my next essay on terrorism.   Like Jillette, I too believe that I do not know what is best for other people, and that it is categorically wrong for me to dictate to them (unless I am telling them to please avoid blowing my head off, vel sim).  I also really like what he said about reserving the right to change his mind about something as his experience with it evolves.  For me, that is what good faith is (and always has been)--not accepting a single answer as true no matter what, but remaining open to new truth (even when it destroys the old).

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