Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 week agoI can also admit that there could be unicorns on Pluto, because it’s nigh impossible to prove a negative.
Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts?
iamthetot@piefed.ca 1 week agoI can also admit that there could be unicorns on Pluto, because it’s nigh impossible to prove a negative.
Iconoclast@feddit.uk 1 week ago
The difference is that unicorns on Pluto is something you just made up right now as a smug dismissal of a reasonable stance.
Ghosts, on the other hand, are our attempt to explain an unexplainable phenomenon that tens of millions of people have personally experienced here on Earth. Outright dismissing the idea that there’s zero chance something weird is going on isn’t that far from claiming absolute certainty that ghosts are real.
A few hundred years ago you’d have been thrown into an insane asylum for insisting there are these tiny invisible living beings all around us - and that it would be smart for surgeons to wash their tools before sticking them inside another person.