[konrad @ quotes] "People have not lost the ability to think critically - people are born with t..."

"People have not lost the ability to think critically - people are born with the ability to think critically. People are just punished for critical thinking. When you bring critical thinking to people what you are doing is in fact evoking all the punishments they received as children for true critical thinking. So if they were raised religious, they had questions and they asked those questions and they were attacked and mocked and humiliated and punished for having those questions. A child who is hit by a mom when the mom says, Don’t hit!" has some critical questions to ask of that mother. These are questions that all children want to ask their parents. I know this for a fact because my daughter is continually asking me these kinds of questions. She is curious about my level of integrity with the values I put forward. So when I say, We don’t use aggression to get what we want," she is constantly scanning to see if I’m using aggression. She is trying to find out if I have integrity or if I’m just using rules to control her."

–Stefan Molyneux, “Finding Your Tribe"

[Reposted from konrad ]

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