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Those are social norms. We inflict such things on them in secular society as well. At the risk of citing an undesirable author, Kaczynski had a real good schpi
by crocodiletears 5y ago
Those are social norms. We inflict such things on them in secular society as well.
At the risk of citing an undesirable author, Kaczynski had a real good schpiel about it in Industrial society.
- jhgb 5y agoWhat exactly are the "social norms" you're talking about?
- crocodiletears 5y agoAny normative claim that suggests an individual or group is morally less-than or unworthy of participating in society if they don't wholly affirm or adopt a specific worldview. Consider contemporary discourse surrounding gender identity, the legitimacy of the nation state, border controls, and other political wedge issues. Information control has been one of the chief concerns of our social institutions, because certain ideas have been deemed unfit to even be considered in our discourse because we're concerned that exposure alone is enough to potentially corrupt someone who might otherwise be a moral and decent person. The thoughts we allow in polite society are always bounded, and it is always painful for those outside of it whether they're coming from a priest, a teacher, a parent, a corporate bureaucrat, or a government official.