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		xerophtye on Sept 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How China brainwashed American POWs using a classi... Then you're still doing brainwashing/indoctrination. Let's not forget, it's "irrespective of the opinion's merit". Besides, just as you hold your "must be provable" views dear, similarly the religious parent holds his or her religious views dear.

philwelch on Sept 19, 2013 [–]

I think there's a useful distinction between teaching a set of opinions that must be held regardless of evidence and teaching the practice of forming one's own opinions based upon evidence, but it's a tricky point to make.

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