Trying to hard to believe

[lightgigantic]

Nonsense. Parents don't always dump their ideologies on their children. Maybe yours did, but that certainly doesn't mean that everyone's does.

that statement could only come from the mouth of a person who is so overwhelmed by their ideological perspective that they can't even recognize it as an ideological perspective (ie a fanatic)

 

[wynn]

Nonsense. Parents don't always dump their ideologies on their children. Maybe yours did, but that certainly doesn't mean that everyone's does.

PC nonsense.

"Other people's outlook on life is an ideology, a result of indoctrination, but mine is not! I am open-minded! I see things as they really are!"

 

[Balerion]

PC nonsense.

"Other people's outlook on life is an ideology, a result of indoctrination, but mine is not! I am open-minded! I see things as they really are!"

You're misrepresenting me. I never said people don't become ideologues or become indoctrinated in their lives. I simply said that parents aren't always the ones to do it, with the exception of religiosity. How many dinner tables feature liberal parents and conservative children, or vice-versa? Now how many dinner tables feature Jewish parents and Muslim children?

People are far more likely to differ from their parents in politics than religion.

 

[lightgigantic]

You're misrepresenting me. I never said people don't become ideologues or become indoctrinated in their lives. I simply said that parents aren't always the ones to do it, with the exception of religiosity. How many dinner tables feature liberal parents and conservative children, or vice-versa? Now how many dinner tables feature Jewish parents and Muslim children?

People are far more likely to differ from their parents in politics than religion.

a more appropriate parallel would be "how many dinner tables feature american liberal parents and monarchist children"

 

[wynn]

You're misrepresenting me. I never said people don't become ideologues or become indoctrinated in their lives. I simply said that parents aren't always the ones to do it, with the exception of religiosity. How many dinner tables feature liberal parents and conservative children, or vice-versa? Now how many dinner tables feature Jewish parents and Muslim children?

People are far more likely to differ from their parents in politics than religion.

Parenting is indoctrination.

All parents are, directly or indirectly, teaching their children a particular set of statements about true and false, right and wrong.