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Talk:Essay:Best Concepts to Teach Teenagers (view source)
Revision as of 14:44, September 1, 2008
, 14:44, September 1, 2008→The Liberal Notion that Authority is necessarily Wrong
::::::Well, I find it interesting that somebody who holds freedom of thought to be essential is so keen to narrow the range of belief [[Debate: should atheists be barred from Conservapedia?|here]] at Conservapedia. [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 10:10, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
::::::Well, I find it interesting that somebody who holds freedom of thought to be essential is so keen to narrow the range of belief [[Debate: should atheists be barred from Conservapedia?|here]] at Conservapedia. [[User:Sideways|Sideways]] 10:10, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
:::::::If you read my statements carefully, instead of just looking at the header and jumping to erroneous conclusions, you would see that I have no wish to narrow any field of debate, nor to advocate hatred of atheists (in fact, quite the reverse), but merely to enable Conservapedia to operate free from the overt and covert sabotage being carried out by those people. Were they able to debate properly, there would be no problem. [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 10:19, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
:::::::If you read my statements carefully, instead of just looking at the header and jumping to erroneous conclusions, you would see that I have no wish to narrow any field of debate, nor to advocate hatred of atheists (in fact, quite the reverse), but merely to enable Conservapedia to operate free from the overt and covert sabotage being carried out by those people. Were they able to debate properly, there would be no problem. [[User:Bugler|Bugler]] 10:19, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
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I agree with Bugler on this point; the idea of "questioning authority" has been perverted into the universal rejection of authority. Questioning authority is both valuable and necessary; had the Founding Fathers not questioned the authority of the King, we would not enjoy the freedoms we know today. The Founders were also well aware that a government of the people, by the people, and for the people required that the people take responsibility for holding government to task.
Mindlessly rejecting all forms of authority, though, is no better than mindlessly obeying authority. One leads to anarchy and self-worship; the other, to totalitarianism and repression. --[[User:Benp|Benp]] 10:44, 1 September 2008 (EDT)
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