You can consider any indoctrination you want. I for the purposes of creating a thread focused on religion. I don't see the problem. You could have answered the thread title with a simple 'no'.
Are you suggesting that Religion be given special status and anything questioning be subject to censorship?
No. I would have said that. And 2 the question is insulting. Have I made some attempt to censor you, reported your thread for locking or something like that?
I was pointing out what seemed an apparant naivte in the conception of the thread. Can you address the issue?
Would you consider other kinds of indoctrination in such a law or do you think only religious indoctrination should be illegal?
How would the law distinguish indoctrination from normal parenting?
Perhaps you have responded somewhere to the issues raised, which would all be important if such a law were to come to pass, but I havent seen it.
I did, by the way, answer the thread with a simple NO. Though it turned out the OP was poorly worded. 'Is there a crime committed....' No, is the correct answer, generally in the West, since it is not a crime, per se, to try to convince someone of religious beliefs. Then it turns out you meant - Should it be considered a crime, and it seemed you thought it should be a crime from some of your comments.
You seem to think you have not expressed a position, but you have.
Once there is a position that religious indoctrination should be considered a crime, of course it makes sense to question whether other forms of indoctrination, probably ones that you consider OK, should be on the table. Examples are political opinions and ethical training.
This was not a poll. You are implying that by raising the issues I am, I am doing something incorrect.
Is that what you really wanted? People to say Yes or No. Or did you want a discussion of the ideas connected to making religious indoctrination a crime? Let me assure you that if a legislature discussed this idea, they would have to deal with reasoning around what makes religious indoctrination unique. IOW they would have to show why other forms of indoctrination - which all parents engage in, for example, and pretty much any active political person, even the bar room lecturer, engages is, should not be covered by the law. Many beliefs out there are asserted without proof. Many would be impossible to support with evidence - ethical beliefs, for example, at least the axioms.
The same holds for a philosophical discussion of the issue. If the issue is
Should religious indoctrination be considered a crime
I cannot see anyway to avoid dealing with the broad issue.
If you shifted the OP to making other behavior illegal
being a sports fan
performing homosexual acts
espousing atheist positions
trying to convince others of political beliefs
you would find people who do this reacting defensively, pointing out ethical and practical problems with such a law, etc.
Yet, you seem surprised people don't simply answer NO or YES.
