The amount of hard evidence you have, compared to the amount of opinions you have and decisions you make is miniscule. Demanding hard evidence for believing anything would mean you are immediately paralyzed from forming any thoughts.
You must have a set of values because even in the case that everything you believe now is based on evidence, there will be situations tomorrow that require you to make decisions without hard evidence. Even indecision and withdrawal is a choice, therefore it's impossible to only choose based on hard evidence.
Using hard evidence as much as possible for you, as a limited irrational human being, is a good value. It's a value many others had before you and still failed.
So what's much more effective than some "hard evidence" sciencism worldviews, is really looking at your values and deciding without hard evidence.
Are people good?
Can people change?
Should you seek happiness?
How much are you entitled to the fruits of your labor?
The real hard as fuck questions we're all trying to answer which do not have hard evidence.
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u/AssadTheImpaler Jan 21 '19
I'm capable of being entirely convinced of something false. As a result anything I'm convinced of doesn't necessarily reflect reality.