No one is any better than their worldview, its alignment with reality, and whether or not they have only assumed it to be true, no matter how pleasant, kind, or subjectively likeable they are outwardly. It is only reality and how much a person cares about reality that would make people great, for if truth does not matter, nothing can. Reason is inherently true and could not have been false no matter what else is, and if truth has moral value, then of course it is by necessity the case that anyone who loves it and purposefully aligns with it is superior to those who do not. Those who dismiss reality are unworthy of it. For those who do not intentionally seek to know it, they are stupid and pathetic to the extent that they are irrationalistic and refuse to embrace rationalistic truths and knowledge of them. Most people are indeed irrationalistic, but there is something very crucial that does not follow from this.
This does not mean that worldviews that are the height of irrationality mean their adherents are worthless, for even the only worldviews that contain the most foundational of errors and contradictions still would depend on logical axioms and other truths, hence why self-refuting philosophies are self-refuting, because they contradict themselves and what cannot not be true. That is why some worldviews contradict logical axioms, because they rely on the very things they would require the non-truth of. If a philosophy would require the nonexistence of any necessary truths or contradict any fact, it either contradicts the only truths that could not have been any other way or it contradicts itself, which is still a subcategory of contradicting logical axioms. Nothing can be true or exist if it truly is contrary to reality, with the very core of reality being logical axioms that govern all things and reveal all knowledge.
Even relativism and anti-realism still entail that objective, absolute truth exists, even though they simultaneously deny this--that is precisely why they are intrinsically false, because logical axioms are intrinsically true independent of all other things. The necessary truths of reason, which start with the handful of axioms that nothing is more fundamental than, mean that at least the laws of logic are not untrue, and there are multiple facets and ramifications of this alone. Only an utter fool would think these contradictions are true, though many of them would not even partially realize left to themselves that they are clinging to that which is in itself impossible. They are no more rational or morally superior than their own beliefs, so if their beliefs are false or assumed, they are deviating from reason, the heart of all things, and cannot possibly be the equals of rationalists.
Since even the ideas that are inherently false via self-contradiction (which is really a contradiction of the only self-necessary truths that could possibly exist, logical axioms) cannot totally escape aligning with a sliver of reality--for instance, relativism denies objective truth even as it would be objectively true if it was correct--people who hold to them likewise cannot totally escape the whole of reality, for they are relying on logically necessary truths even if they do not realize it or want this to be the case. However, since some worldviews cannot possibly be true even if the laws of nature, moral obligations, and character of the uncaused cause were different than they are now, for strictly logical truths are immutable and true by self-necessity, the people who assume they are true or embrace them despite knowing their invalidity are no better than the erroneous philosophical ideas they are stupid enough to believe.
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