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> there's a very real pipeline in which people with less-trained critical thinking skills If this is your opinion, perhaps the problem is that society underval
by dogleash 4y ago
> there's a very real pipeline in which people with less-trained critical thinking skills
If this is your opinion, perhaps the problem is that society undervalues critical thinking skills. Not that an entertainer isn’t shilling in the correct directions.
- ryandv 4y agoIf the intellect and judgment of mankind ought to be cultivated, a thing which Protestants at least do not deny, on what can these faculties be more appropriately exercised by any one, than on the things which concern him so much that it is considered necessary for him to hold opinions on them? - John Stuart Mill, On Liberty (1859) Perhaps the cause of this problem is refusing society the opportunity to exercise their critical thinking skills. No matter, we can just spoonfeed everyone the received and accepted wisdom. Then there will be no need for any faculties of discernment. The Catholic Church has its own way of dealing with this embarrassing problem. It makes a broad separation between those who can be permitted to receive its doctrines on conviction, and those who must accept them on trust.