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by emmett 2750 days ago
Paul doesn’t seem to have gotten in any trouble for saying it. What makes you think that someone else would? The problem only comes up when you start trying to label other people’s beliefs as dogma.

This is about examining your own beliefs to root out dogma, and avoiding pushing your dogmas into others. Not about being a self-perceived victim of some other group oppressing you.

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To explain: Assuming causality is a cognitive bias. Assuming causality in other people’s outcomes can be .. another kind of bias. Dogma comes in when only certain assumptions are permissible.

I don’t mean to drag the discussion through all this, I was just asking a question (above) and answering yours (here)