The epistemic charge also focuses on arbitrariness: here the claim is that the exclusivist is treating similar things differently, thus falling into intellectual arbitrariness. The moral charge is that there is a sort of egoism, perhaps pride or hubris, in accepting beliefs when one realizes 443both that others do not accept them and that in all likelihood one possesses no arguments that would convince those dissenters. This arbitrariness is thought to have both a moral and an intellectual component: it is thought to be both unjustified (contrary to doxastic duty) and irrational. Is there something else in the nearby bushes that could produce a defeater? Perhaps the most important suggestion in the neighborhood is that there is something arbitrary about accepting Christian belief. This approach, therefore, appears to be a nonstarter.
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