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A useful tactic for your belief or disbelief is to follow the thread of belief to it's origin and see if you endorse that individual. Many of the pillars of pr
by tonymet 4y ago
A useful tactic for your belief or disbelief is to follow the thread of belief to it's origin and see if you endorse that individual.
Many of the pillars of present-day progressivism and conservatism can be traced to a few key philosophers , academics & politicians from the 20s-60s.
Those ideologies will become more grounded when you see the kind of person those thoughts came from.
- seneca 4y agoThis is literally describing, and endorsing, the ad hominem fallacy. Your point isn't wrong in this case, the roots if modern new-left ideology are unsavory, but that doesn't make it a sound general approach.