Skepticism

[DarwinOfMind]

Reading the Munchausen by Internet thread and various links form there and links from there, I notice a common theme. (I must be a masochist to read all that)


Whenever a deception is initially questioned, there are always people who jump to the defense of the story, and and a common statement, "These are just skeptical people a product of our skeptical age." Often with a sense that skeptical people are either evil or to be pitied.

I'm a person that feels skepticism is increadably important and that our age is not skeptical in fact is growing dangerously less skeptical. So I thought I'd see where other peoples felt about this.

Since this concerns skepticism and faith I placed it in here.

[Pigs in Space]

I don't think you actually feel that way.

[Schizm]

Skepticism is good and our society doesn't have enough of it.

[Lady_Acoma]

I think it's good, but I am not sure that we have any degree of difference in more or less of it.

[Pigs in Space]

But... that would be questioning the president!

[tleilaxu]

people are NOT skeptical, they are cynical
skepticism is good, cynicism not so much.

[Random Encounter]

people are NOT skeptical, they are cynical
skepticism is good, cynicism not so much.

I'll agree with this.
I try to be a skeptical optimist. Which is not an oxymoron, but would be if we allow people to redifine the terms like that.