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0 pointsestsauver5y ago0 comments

I haven’t, but definitely do read things from outside my view point pretty regularly. I tend not to find fiction compelling for settling empirical questions though, so I’m likely to pass on reading this for the same reason I have passed on reading atlas shrugged. The best way to convince me of something is generally non fiction.

(To give a few examples of books that have changed my mind, I was a very conservative libertarian growing up in the school of Nozick, but ended up being much more liberal as a result of reading Foucault and his rather compelling recasting of how power dynamics work. I found Peter Singer, Nussbaum and Sen to all be compelling enough writers to basically convince me of what I should spend my life doing. If you have suggestions for science based books, I’d love to read them, but I find religious fiction generally leaves me unmoved and uninterested.)

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projektfu5y ago

It’s not religious fiction. It’s more a collection of essays (or lectures, organized in the back of the book) with a sort of thriller storyline in the novel to make the reading more fun and explain better how the narrator is reacting to the lectures. But you could get a lot out of it by simply reading the appendix, which contains the arguments.

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