Talk:Normative Burden of Proof/@comment-34938008-20200531181832

I don't think that's how the Burden of Proof works. It falls upon whoever makes a claim first. Saying that X is permissible is a claim. The default position is always agnostic/neutral. So in a moral context tit would be: I'm not sure if X is permissible or not, not X is permissible.

The default position should not be affirmative. Otherwise why couldn't an atheist say that the default position regarding God is that he doesn't exist because of a lack of evidence?