2. Values don't come from an absolute source, but are part of the collective programming of a social group. The values of other groups are not less logical and valid than your own, but their adoption has different consequences.
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3. Your moral assessment of the consequences is irrelevant to people with different values; you need to be able to see it through all possible lenses. The only thing that must remain constant and can be argued about is the set of material consequences.
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Since "rule" one comes from no authority is it fair to assume that it is a personal opinion, in which case it is not a rule.
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take it as a possibility and feel free to exhaustively search the space of alternatives and see where they get you, while never forgetting the way back, so you can apply the rule to itself, which of course you must
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do tell
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Amazon's "Man in the High Castle" is a major accomplishment in this regard.
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Perhaps not, but "understanding" was not at all what was at isdue in this convo. Adoption and (quite precisely) moral relativism were.
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Ah, my point exactly: Is the purpose and nature of teaching at school indoctrination or education?
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Your 3 points sound like indoctrination regardless of any veracity they may have
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Doesn't seem like a contradiction if it's stating that knowledge isn't gained from the source of the authority but on the evidence for that claim. It would be a contradiction if he said that something is correct because it is taught by a school.
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