Beyond Podcast

We all have a philosophy or belief system that inform our decision-making, but do we have beliefs that we can actually and logically defend? Most of us hodge-podge together a series of beliefs and don't even consider whether they are compatible or not. Meaning the logic we use to create or affirm our beliefs sometimes are logically flawed and any conclusions we make from those beliefs is inherently flawed. Most of us spend our days defending our beliefs rather than our logic. People are innocent or guilty because they are affiliated with a particular political party or a particular philosophy. Republicans are vile and deplorable - greedy men who hate immigrants, foreigners, women, and children. Democrats are evil socialist authoritarians who are trying to take over the world, who kill babies and hate God. None of these are true. They are strawmen and caricatures of people in each of these parties but this is not who most of these people are. I know this because these people are your family, friends, and co-wo