Is belief a choice?

Is belief a choice?

I really hate racists with an unimaginable level of bile, the kind literally involves extended murder fantasies (obviously that makes using Veeky Forums pretty tough). Today I realized that the only difference between me and them is that they hate people for circumstances of their birth while I hate people for their choices

The problem is though, can you choose what you believe? I can say the words "the sky is red" over and over again to myself but I can only ever see it as blue, I can never choose any other belief.

I've been an atheist for years but that didn't stop me from trying a huge number of religions, and yet I never once believed what I practiced, even though I tried to choose my belief system

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not really
I'd love to have socially acceptable beliefs but I have seen nothing to suggest that people are equal

what book is this?

The position that beliefs can be chosen is called "Doxastic Voluntarism". It's probably false.

iep.utm.edu/doxa-vol/
plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-belief/

Depends on how well thought-out or reasoned their belief is. Some beliefs are based on substantial evidence and experience, others are adherence to shit they were told by some older bigot.

Racists have a lot of good points and generally don't fantasize about murdering people not if their own race (yes I know there are people on /pol/ who do). Sounds like you're the dogmatic one and quite possibly unhinged. Nothing about racism requires you to actually hate the other.

Well... what do you think beliefs are (physically)?

perspectives

To be honest, I know the evidence is against me. Science favors the racists, but the truth has nothing to contribute to humanity. It can only cause suffering.

Humans aren't equal in ability, but they deserve equal rights, equal options, and equal treatment. We can't have that if we accept inequality

but treating people as equal has resulted in unequal treatment?