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Not if you teach your children critical thinking and to base their opinions on something provable.
by Sandman 13y ago
Not if you teach your children critical thinking and to base their opinions on something provable.
- xerophtye 13y agoThen you're still doing brainwashing/indoctrination. Let's not forget, it's "irrespective of the opinion's merit". Besides, just as you hold your "must be provable" views dear, similarly the religious parent holds his or her religious views dear.
- philwelch 13y agoI think there's a useful distinction between teaching a set of opinions that must be held regardless of evidence and teaching the practice of forming one's own opinions based upon evidence, but it's a tricky point to make.