They aren't justified if there is an absence of evidence. It's not that it doesn't satisfy me, it doesn't satisfy anything. There isn't even any evidence.
How are they strawmen? If you don't think claims demand evidence then you don't think claims demand evidence. Just because someone is willing to arbitrarily say some things require evidence and others don't doesn't make it a strawman. Not every spiritual person denies the effectiveness of medicine but some do and there's no way to argue against that unless you start using evidence. Also the existence of a soul is not a subjective concept; either it exists or it doesn't.
How is it the same 'violence'?
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
They aren't justified if there is an absence of evidence. It's not that it doesn't satisfy me, it doesn't satisfy anything. There isn't even any evidence.
How are they strawmen? If you don't think claims demand evidence then you don't think claims demand evidence. Just because someone is willing to arbitrarily say some things require evidence and others don't doesn't make it a strawman. Not every spiritual person denies the effectiveness of medicine but some do and there's no way to argue against that unless you start using evidence. Also the existence of a soul is not a subjective concept; either it exists or it doesn't.
How is it the same 'violence'?
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~