> Asking for evidence isnt a "belief system"

> If someone wants to hold something up as true, its correct to disbelieve it until evidence is provided.

So, a belief system.

> Seems like you quoted them having investigated it.

Asking for evidence isn’t investigating. It’s zero cost to ask for evidence.

Evidence alone doesn’t produce wisdom. It produces cleverness. Feelings and emotion are faster and vaster in terms of information processing, but provides a very low bandwidth output, basically a gut feeling of “good” or “bad”. Emotion isn’t irrational, it’s pre-verbal compression that contains real insight once it’s unpacked. Most people never unpack it, so an outside observer makes the (incorrect) leap from emotional -> irrational.

If you can marry evidence with that unpacked pre-verbal compression, that will be gold. But that requires a bunch of work and soft skills to have a good faith dialectic over time with someone you disagree with.