@Rajk999 saidAnd yet you say you want America to be free. It can never be free if you remove critical thinking. What you usually end up with is a society in chains, who think they're free because their dictator says they are.
If ideas are debated over and over, and are found faulty then there must come a point when society must agree to get rid of the faulty idea.
Islam, proven over and over to be detrimental to all concerned, even to the ones professing to be adherents. For some reason the religion persists.
Socialism / communism - a failure, both in theory and practice. Yet these systems co ...[text shortened]... doctrines and systems, dont live long enough to pass on their experience, so the mistakes continue.
@moonbus saidExactly.
Getting rid of faulty ideas--yes, agree completely. Faulty ideas such as criminalising miscegenation. This was within my own lifetime criminalised in some states of the USA. Criminalising it was supported by all the same arguments still trotted out against non-heterosexuality: it's an affront to God and nature, it's perverted, it's a moral sickness.
Arguments against misc ...[text shortened]... other hoary prejudices and re-examine the faulty arguments which are trotted out in support of them.
Freedom comes from the mind first.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidHe might not even have a center-line (Ip Man joke).
I think you have no moral compass
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@moonbus saidThose who ignore the past (or never learn about it) also ignore warnings about the future. They just can't grok it.
It is my contention that the Trump administration is pursuing a deliberate policy to stupidify America--to make America stupid. Trump's administration is defunding schools and universities, defunding museums, interfering in curricula, defunding research, across the board, and at the same time supporting RFK Jr.'s junk science. There is a clear pattern: make America dumb.
I ...[text shortened]... ührer, one of the banners of the Nazi regime. The similarity has not gone unnoticed on social media.
@moonbus saidThe kids are already stupid by the time they get to college. Some of them cannot even read (let alone write) a complete sentence (according to one report).
Texas A&M bans Plato.
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Martin Peterson, a philosophy professor at Texas A&M University, was told this week by university administrators that he either would need to drop a discussion of race and gender issues and the writings by Plato on those topics from his introductory philosophy course or teach a different course.
The mandate comes as part of a review of co ...[text shortened]... d mention that the history of critical thinking in Western civilisation basically starts with Plato.
@Mott-The-Hoople saidDid Trump tell you that?
“We're not talking about indoctrinating children here”
Yes…yes you are
It dovetails right into his philosophy of keeping America afraid.
@Rajk999 saidMore fear-mongering.
Do you realise that they are in fact teaching about sexuality, homosexuality and other forms of perverted sexuality, to kids as young as 6, in some US schools?
Nobody is teaching people to discriminate against homosexuality in schools. If it is picked up then it is a society thing which you cannot change.
Did you know there are plenty of philosophy students who are heterosexual?
Do you get that?
@Indonesia-Phil saidIt is a good day when clarity rules the day.
Indeed, Suzianne, I'm drowning in a sea of the stuff here, kept afloat by the life - jacket of clear thought and lack of prejudice....It's good to hear a friendly voice.
The only thing to fear is the people who fear everything.
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@mike69 saidNo.
These are your words below. I was telling you some of the things I consider harmful. Do you agree these things are harming others and they are forcing these things on people who don’t agree. The rest of your post is bs.
Not everyone believes as you believe, that's just the way the world is; people are as they are, and if it does no harm to anyone then there's no harm to it.
You are only motivated by fear, and your party knows that.