If you believe everything you're supposed to now, how can you be sure you wouldn't also have believed everything you were supposed to if you had grown up among the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War South, or in Germany in the 1930s-- or among the Mongols in 1200, for that matter? Odds are you would have.
I've wondered about that myself, so I try to find those ideas and examine them. I just wonder how well I would have done in those other situations. I suspect that I might have gotten the idea of questioning ideas from some current ethical fashion and would have just gone along with those ideas.
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Date: 2004-01-06 12:04 am (UTC)If you believe everything you're supposed to now, how can you be sure you wouldn't also have believed everything you were supposed to if you had grown up among the plantation owners of the pre-Civil War South, or in Germany in the 1930s-- or among the Mongols in 1200, for that matter? Odds are you would have.
I've wondered about that myself, so I try to find those ideas and examine them. I just wonder how well I would have done in those other situations. I suspect that I might have gotten the idea of questioning ideas from some current ethical fashion and would have just gone along with those ideas.