It wouldn't make a lot of sense to go along to a Mixed Martial Arts contest with the aim of recruiting members for a chess team, would it. Being at a philosophy forum and trying to engage rationalists would at first glance appear to be a lot easier quest. But it isn't. Why? Because wherever we have Left and Right divides we can't really expect rational behavior. Does it make sense that half the population gets it right, the other half wrong? No. Both sides need to be wrong, their outlooks a product of determinism, with only a small (5%) of the population being rational, and that one in twenty ratio can not exist where right and left are anyone's pre-determined traits. Freethinkers would be transients here. Maybe one in one hundred visitors. But if there is by chance one about, then accept the challenge this thread represents. I've had little formal education and it should be easy to refute just about anything I say. So, try this: A woman is standing on the porch holding a baby, in the front yard her partner is repairing their lawn mower. "It's a good thing you married a mechanic" the partner exclaims. With these parameters, what are the chances of their baby being a girl? If you answer this correctly, then you have some chance of showing me I'm wrong in the OP of this thread. And, reading this and not responding is let's face it an act of intellectual dishonesty. You can anonymously read, but then cowardly avoid replying? If you solve this quiz, then you have been down the same road as myself. But if you don't then you can hardly dismiss what it is I claim.
