[AdmSmith]

This article is nonsense from start to finish. The thing wrong with people who murder innocents wholesale is not that they think anything with certainty. Only the most doctinaire and narrow minded skeptical philosopher could possibly think so. "If only they were skeptics", sigh. That is the whole argument and it is demonstrably false.

I have "discussed" with wahhabis, and I can assure you that if they would be less sure about their beliefs, we would not have the present scale of the problem with these terrorists. Many of them are generally friendly, even law-abiding persons, except that they are possessed with their strange idea. If we can show them that the basis of their faith is not what they think, we would marginalize the most extreme of them.

[JasonC]

I've discussed with wahhabis, and with asharites, and with western philosophical skeptics who are also commies, and I can assure you skepticism does not prevent any sort of moral evil to the slightest extent. It is a prejudice of people whose religion is skepticism. They do recognize moral evil in skeptics because their world-view is built around "non-judgmental" people being "safe" and "reasonable". Which is nonsense, of exactly the same sort as the nonsense of Muslims who say those committing these atrocities cannot possibly be true Muslims because Muslims are righteous and true.

There is no connection whatever between the strength or weakness of epistemic claims anyone makes and their moral virtue. Nada. Empirically. It is made up, a mere hope or wish or self-identifier, not something you know anything about in the real world, and false.