Re:Teenagers are better behaved and less hedonistic (2018)
by amp108 on Sunday April 26, 2020 @10:41PM
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>> Unfalsifiable claims like this one tend to have a bit of baggage like eternal punishment.
> Here's something that is falsifiable and true: the teen suicide rates in the oppressive and orthodox 1950s were much lower than they are in the "liberated" times today. I cannot and will not claim that this can be reduced to belief in a higher power
You don't need to. Whether or not a result can be attributed to a belief has no bearing on whether the belief itself is true.
> Here's something that is falsifiable and true: the teen suicide rates in the oppressive and orthodox 1950s were much lower than they are in the "liberated" times today. I cannot and will not claim that this can be reduced to belief in a higher power
You don't need to. Whether or not a result can be attributed to a belief has no bearing on whether the belief itself is true.