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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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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Yes. That is what I am pointing out. You are saying this but you actually mean these are sets of ideas you don't think worth criticising.
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Then we can discuss why and I might well agree with you.
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Ah. Ok. People are pretty good at rationalizing their choices. Making them appear as non-choices is one powerful way of doing that.
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