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This is a nice rant, more emotional than well thought out. First off there is no such thing as neutrality in this context. Whatever worldview/moral system you a
by curioussavage 10y ago
This is a nice rant, more emotional than well thought out. First off there is no such thing as neutrality in this context. Whatever worldview/moral system you approve of teaching children is not neutral. You are lying to yourself by pretending it's possible to raise a child in some kind of a void.
Indoctrination to you = any time somebody teaches a child something you don't approve of.
Who is the dangerous extremist enemy of freedom? Look in a mirror.
- andrepd 10y agoNo, indoctrination to me is instilling dogmas in a small child who is developing their brain personality and cannot critically evaluate what they're being told. Instilling your morality based on a solid reasoning is not. Compare "Stealing your schoolmate's toy is wrong. Why daddy? Because it's his and he wants to play with it. If you steal it he can't play, and he will be sad. If you want to play, ask him first for permission, and offer one of your toys too so he can have something to play with." with "There's a man who preached in the middle eastern desert in the time of the Roman Empire that will make you live forever if you are good and go to church every Sunday. Why daddy? Because. And if you ever doubt, even in your mind, he will punish you forever!". These aren't the same. Critical thought is a beautiful thing. Brainwashing a child into accepting an absurd dogma for no reason other than authority and fear is wrong.
- pram 10y agoWhy are you instilling your child with such a reverence for private property? Taking the toy could be morally justified if the schoolmate is a child of the parasitical classes. Your 'solid reasoning' is severely lacking a grounding in material dialectics IMO, you're practically brainwashing them with capitalist absurdity.