How a skeptic sees another Skeptic
You’re not at all like my rose. You’re nothing at all yet. No one has tamed you and you haven’t tamed anyone. You’re the way my fox was. He was just a fox like a hundred thousand others. But I’ve made him my friend, and now he’s the only fox in all the world.
-Little Prince to the million same roses-
Skepticism is a perspective of seeing the world to be presented by the different idea’s of different individuals. Therefore, there is no absolute truth to begin with, since all the so-called truths, not only susceptible to anti-theses, are prone to different people. Thus skeptics refuse to believe anything – although this may vary depending on what skepticism you’re in – that is believed. For absolute skeptic( who does not believe in any facts) is faced with a counter-argument: why would a skeptic eat and breathe and live as we do, for he won’t know whether these are good or bad? they defended themselves by saying that they live by conforming to what seems right.
Upon this, it seems that Skepticism is no theorem but a mere belief. However, a true skeptic would consider to be skeptical toward his own skepticism. Yet, a skepticism is a form of thinking that is prone to another skepticism, and he would find that as long as there is no truth in the world, there are also truths to begin with in order to construct his own skepticism.
Thus, rather than to deny every form of facts and knowledge, the being would try to acknowledge the “truth” as seen and only to argue for basic purposes within the facts. And accept all beliefs as they are.
However, when it comes to our lives, there are many who argue against our belief claiming that they are foolish or illogical. They, mediocre skeptics (marring the name of the real skeptics) always question the hypothetical situations and others opinion. For example, when a person says “I want world peace,” it is a fact or a perception of truth that, fortunately the person wants peace in the world. But those pseudo-skeptics say “But what if, you are tortured by your friends, family, and government and died? Would you still ask for world peace?” Although it seems that this question attacks the person’s claim of wanting world peace, its hypothetical situation, although possible, was not in the person’s conscious thought when he said he wanted “world peace.” It is not denying the truth of the concept “world peace” but rather deny the opinion, far less of the truth.
So, for a skeptic with a cognition to question far above only its meaning of skepticism(not believing), this pseudo-skeptic is a pain in the — to hear. What the pseudo-skeptic does is trying to deny only opinions and beliefs of others, not the implication within the opinions and the beliefs. Those who try to deny the opinion and the beliefs is like denying a Christian person for saying he is Christian.
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