Дата: 29.08.2021 20:53:48
Clutch_Shot_007, on Aug 29 2021 - 18:12, said: I think it never ends because there's no way to really
resolve the issue with high confidence with the available
information. I'm agnostic on the issue, because
without proof one way or the other, how can one be sure? So,
it's one of those "You just have to make up your own damn mind"
kind of things. But proof is a very high standard. I
mean, no one can prove that smoking causes cancer in humans because
of the confounding possibility that people who are predisposed to
getting cancer may be those who choose to smoke. That's
literally what stands in the way of proving it. Well,
actually, a double blind randomized control study of humans would
resolve it, but that doesn't exist and will probably never
happen. That would be the gold standard of proof in that
realm. Yet, do you believe smoking causes cancer, even though
not everybody who smokes gets lung cancer? I do.
Seemingly the majority of people now believe it. Most of the
time we have to reach conclusions even if we don't have a rock
solid proof.
DeviouslyCursed: Ah, the old "if you're not 100% certain, you can't know
anything" fallacy. Most things in life are never 100% certainties.
You could close your eyes and run across a busy street. What?
Because some people make it you are going to conclude that closing
your eyes and running across a busy street doesn't result in being
injured or killed by vehicles? You're going to conclude that it's a
safe activity because maybe the people who got hit were predisposed
to getting hit by vehicles anyway?