When the “right to ones opinion”…makes no sense.

First of all I would like to state that this piece of writing is just an insignificant philosophical review, of my understanding of the world, as a young mind that tries to comprehend the multidimensionally undoubtable importance of scientific thinking, that results to scientific discoveries.

With “scientific thinking”, I don’t just mean the research from the perspective of a discovery. But rather the intellectual approach on questions like “How can we find the truth based on reproducible evidence?”.

You want to know what evidence I found that made me realise that this “system” of step-by-step validation of information, should be important?

Well… I am writing this article from a computer, and I can instantly send this information to the whole world. You can easily guess, that this technology did not came out of people’s opinions or beliefs. It came out of constant scientific discoveries and inventions, based on specific reproducible evidence. So evidence-based thinking…works.

You know what doesn’t work? The “right-for-ones-opinion” excuse, for any scientifically illiterate point of view, that people tend to use in order to justify how the world should be working. When a person is defending his thoughts by just stating that “you should respect my opinion”, isn’t this the exact behaviour you would expect from a 3-year old? Don’t the 3-year olds defy evidence, and just do whatever their curiosity tells them to do, and if not, they are getting mad because they think that it’s their right to do whatever they want?

Guess what the grown-ups do… They learn during their lives through empirical and reproducible evidence, and… they stop putting their hands into the fire!

I am about to become 30 this year and I cannot stop wondering why in some aspects of our lives, humans stop behaving as adults. There is evidence for this conclusion every where. From politics, to “fake news”, to religious causes that initiate wars and stigmatise groups of people, to flat-earthers, climate-change deniers and the list goes on and on.

What if we start behaving according to hands-on evidence? What if we stop creating facts in favour of our personal agenda?

Maybe it is time for us to grow up and start behaving as adults in all aspects of our lives. Let us reach these books in the shelf right above our heads!

I am not a “believer” of Science. I don’t believe. I hear-question-observe-conclude.