Some ppl argue that if you believe an ideology to be factually & ethically wrong, it's virtuous to not subscribe to it & leave it alone.
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So now you've further abstracted from "ideologies" to "things". Of course ppl disagree about the ethics of criticizing different things.
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Sets of ideas then. Systems of thought. And they should. My criticism is not of this. It's not admitting that's what they;re doing.
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It's when they say 'Just don't ascribe to X belief system if you don't believe /like it!' but then criticise Y coz they don't believe/like
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People will tell me I should just not be religious if I think it ethically/factually wrong as though this is the virtuous thing to do. 1/2
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But then they'll criticise feminism/capitalism/liberalism/humanism etc rather than just not ascribing to them. 2/2
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Probably because they see that it has an effect on their life. They can't ignore it. And they feel more independent from religion.
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Yes, probably. This is a reasonable reason to give. 'Because criticising sets of ideas is bad' is not.
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When they say it, it must be implicitly scoped to such sets of ideas that they find not worth criticizing.
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