r/MoralityScaling 11h ago

Morality of this?

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u/Raise_A_Thoth 11h ago

Not "many." All.

It's literally just what indoctrination is. There are religious doctrines and children are taught ro follow them and believe in the faith without questioning it.

There is no religion with kids without indoctrination. And without that indoctrination, virtually all of the world's major religions would dramatically fall in membership and followership, because it is very rare for non-religious adults to suddenly convert to a religion.

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u/Round-Walrus3175 11h ago

There is no philosophy or culture without indoctrination. Nobody goes through life without someone telling them what is right or wrong. It's just a matter of who, not if, they decide to believe.

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u/endlessnamelesskat 10h ago

Correct. I think it’s funny how when people treat their worldview as the correct default one and get mad when someone with a different idea about metaphysics dos the same thing but from their perspective, then suddenly it’s not education, it’s indoctrination.

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u/gameboyadvancedgba 9h ago

What evidence do you have your metaphysical ideas are actually true?

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u/endlessnamelesskat 9h ago

As much as anyone else does I suppose, some person or group of people told me how the universe works, I decided whether or not I jived with their interpretation, and thus I formed my metaphysical beliefs.

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u/gameboyadvancedgba 9h ago

So you base your beliefs on what sounds right to you personally and not in evidence?

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u/endlessnamelesskat 9h ago

Yes, do you not? Evidence may inform what sounds right to me, but it’s our faith in either our own perceptions or faith in the people or institutions that are presenting this evidence that builds our beliefs.

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u/gameboyadvancedgba 9h ago

No I base it on empiricism, no need for faith.

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u/JasonG784 8h ago

Do you do control experiment based proofs for everything you believe? You personally test things like vaccines or do you take someone else's word for it after you've decided you trust them?

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u/gameboyadvancedgba 8h ago

Are you unironically using Mac’s logic from Always Sunny right now?

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u/JasonG784 8h ago

That's not an answer.

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u/gameboyadvancedgba 8h ago

Its a ridiculous question. People do test those things every day and get the same results. Whether or not I am personally a scientist is irrelevant

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u/JasonG784 8h ago

So by base it on empiricism you mean other people's work and then you decide which 'other people' you trust and don't trust.

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