If the only argument I have for something is rooted in that faith, then it's clearly just mine. Other people who are present as whole people will be rooting such things in their own faiths, which I am highly unlikely to share (I should really write down some of my increasingly unorthodox takes on Kemetic stuff somewhere, but I'm afraid to do so publically for wank reasons), and that may not line up with mine. I need to couch arguments to convince other people in terms of things that are not internal to myself; I need to appeal to facts first of all, shared human emotion and response secondly (and this is less dependable), and only if necessary point out my personal convictions.
And there's the thing. If you can use sources outside yourself for your arguments for things that include other people, it's a fairly good sign that you've got an argument that has a chance. If your only support is "it's my opinion" or "God said so" then there's going to be a problem. For all anyone else knows your logic may be flawed or when God was speaking to you, you were experiencing a lot of static on the line and only got half of the instructions.
I don't expect anyone to leave their family or religion at the door -- but when it comes to the people running things, the actions that affect the populace must consider, as you said, other whole beings who may not share core beliefs and it's a pretty bad sign when the argument for an action comes down to "my holy book says so."
Exactly. Even if I didn't have ethical reasons for that approach (the whole "If I'm present as a whole, I should expect that other people are too" thing), it's just infinitely more practical to refer to stuff that other people can confirm with some level of objectivity.
And there's the thing. If you can use sources outside yourself for your arguments for things that include other people, it's a fairly good sign that you've got an argument that has a chance. If your only support is "it's my opinion" or "God said so" then there's going to be a problem. For all anyone else knows your logic may be flawed or when God was speaking to you, you were experiencing a lot of static on the line and only got half of the instructions.
I don't expect anyone to leave their family or religion at the door -- but when it comes to the people running things, the actions that affect the populace must consider, as you said, other whole beings who may not share core beliefs and it's a pretty bad sign when the argument for an action comes down to "my holy book says so."
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