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I imagine that what the author intended to say was something along the lines of "An individual's political views are the private business of that individual." I
by pcl 11y ago
I imagine that what the author intended to say was something along the lines of "An individual's political views are the private business of that individual." I think that's pretty clear from the context.
- jacquesm 11y agoYes, that's exactly what I meant.
- Retra 11y agoI know what the author intended; my point still stands. The term for "non-personal belief" in English is "political belief." Anyone who says otherwise is usually either lying in an attempt to put their beliefs beyond criticism (which may be warranted,) or simply repeating what their culture has taught them to say. (This is only 2015, after all, and we are the cavemen of the future. We have many self-contradictory and damaging cultural norms.) Politics is explicitly about controlling other people, and there's nothing personal about that.
- engi_nerd 11y agoOr maybe English isn't their first language?