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If you don't trust doctors, why would you trust schools? Admittedly in each case you'd hopefully see their claims as input worth considering.
by abecedarius 14y ago
If you don't trust doctors, why would you trust schools? Admittedly in each case you'd hopefully see their claims as input worth considering.
- nitrogen 14y agoI don't mean "trust" in the sense of "willingness to incorporate input into one's rational model of the world," but rather in the sense of "deep-seated instinctive aversion that is difficult to change." One can consciously consider the word of a doctor as highly valuable input, while simultaneously having a visceral distrust of the abstract concept of doctors that is beyond their immediate control. It does not follow that this instinctively learned distrust must necessarily extend to schools, though perhaps if a particular person's distrust of doctors originates in a general distaste for authority, it is possible.
- abecedarius 14y agoI do expect it to come down to distrust of authority, but maybe that's too optimistic.