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Is Your Belief System a Necessity?
If you have any belief system at all, you do thit. And if you lost the sense of up and down, the place that you would end up would be not so much neutral as terrible. So even if your belief system is relatively insufficient and easily challenged on intellectual grounds, it does lay out a moral structure for you to follow. It's relative intellectual weakness and its incoherence, assuming it is incoherent to some degree, that's a flaw. But that doesn't mean that the effort to establish a system like that is worthless. It's worth while. I mean, part of the reason that the germans preferred hitler to chaos was because they felt that the order that