GDR writes:
If it weren't so we would have absolute knowledge and we would largely lose our freedom to choose.
I have never understood this argument. For all intents and purposes, my parents are my creators. Funny thing is, they made their existence really, really obvious. They didn't leave vague writings through intermediaries and hide their existence from me. They often tell me exactly what they think in language that is very specific. Did they take away my free will or any "freedom to choose"? Not at all. I am still free to do what I want, to heed their advice or not heed it. I don't see how any freedom or choices were taken from my by knowing that my parents really exist.
And what is this "freedom to choose"? Do people refrain from looking into the sky so that their freedom to choose in the existence of the Moon isn't robbed from them? The "freedom of choice" you seem to be talking about sounds a lot more like "wallowing in our ignorance".
Edited by Taq, : No reason given.