I really appreciate these comments about uncertainty. I have come to think of stubborn insistence on uncertainty as a inverse corollary of curiosity - refusing to settle with an answer, troubling it to learn more, being deeply suspicious of the satisfaction of ever having the "right" answer. Maybe it's a consequence of being lied to about hell through my early years in a cult-adjacent fundamentalist evangelical church, but my alarm bells start ringing as soon as someone want to convince me that some particular take is "the" answer.
I really appreciate these comments about uncertainty. I have come to think of stubborn insistence on uncertainty as a inverse corollary of curiosity - refusing to settle with an answer, troubling it to learn more, being deeply suspicious of the satisfaction of ever having the "right" answer. Maybe it's a consequence of being lied to about hell through my early years in a cult-adjacent fundamentalist evangelical church, but my alarm bells start ringing as soon as someone want to convince me that some particular take is "the" answer.