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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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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Sounds like you want them to adopt your meta-ideology so that they see an inconsistency they didn't see before.
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It appears inconsistent when you analyse it using your own classification of actions, but I'm sure it doesn't feel inconsistent to them.
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Of course not. That's why I have to point out that it is. It's their own claim, not mine. 'If you don't like this ideology, leave it alone.'
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But it really means 'I don't think you should criticise this ideology because I see different ones as more worthy of criticism'
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But that is a valid argument. 'Why criticise ideologies?' isn't unless you genuinely mean that about all of them.
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