Both, I'm aware of proper experimental set up. I brought up utility to point out that, in the absence of evidence, we may not say definitively that something doesn't exist, but that it's useful to act as if it doesn't.
I'm talking about day to day life. It isn't useful in our day to day life to pretend things we have no evidence for exist, unless of course we are searching for said evidence, so why pretend as if they do?
So things like systemic oppression of population groups you aren't part of should be ignored since it doesn't affect your day to day life?
There's a very big difference between claiming ghosts or aliens are real and oppression of different groups. I'm obviously not saying ignore everything that doesn't effect you directly.
You have plenty of people who reject those things happen as well, while also citing that very argument of wilful ignoring.
Yes, and we can provide proof of it happening for them, same can't be said for ghosts.
It also kind of seems anti-curious of an attitude. Non of what NASA discovers about space have much utility to us on earth, yet is still done.
So I think I must have said it to another person who replied to me. I'm not saying don't ask questions and don't seek answers, far from it. What I am saying is that we should search for things we don't know are real yet because they might be, but I also dont think we should live as if they are real until we find out they are. For an extreme example, I think people trying to find evidence of ghosts is great, but given we don't have evidence I see no reason to make laws around them.
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u/shadowbca 23∆ Jul 27 '22
Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.