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Originally posted by Bardock42
I think you misunderstand me.Do you have any prove whatsoever that they are completely influenced by that? And wouldn't the difference in believes even among similarly educated (or even brainwashed) people, be indication that there is at least some independent difference?
And my I ask in what way you are not influenced by such things?
That's a ridiculous definition. You disregard thought because a few people came to the same conclusion? Why should everyone have a different "own" belief. If some belief makes perfect sense to people (like apparently Christianity does to many) why would they need a belief that's not common for it to be independent? Just idiotic. You don't want independence, you want uniqueness (quite different).
Well, no necessarily society, but people reading the discourse we had. I mean, it's probably provable (if we pretend that psychology is a science (which we really shouldn't)), but at least I am not willing to pay for psycho analysis for you and you are probably not willing to be subjected to it, just to settle a silly argument on the Internet.
proof? You can see it all around you, the fake arrogent people who hang around now days, from my own view as I showed earier with the 14 year old example, even at such a young age she belives children are her future and her only one, labelling people etc, and this carries on for a long time until the social view of "gays" being wrong is imprinted on their minds, not just gays ofc but many groups that are not seen as socially sound.
As ive said already, what makes me diffrent (independant thinker) from a sheep, a random every day arrogent who belives whatever he/she has learnt from social beliefs, whether its gays are all wrong, children are the highest form of life etc, smoking (in some social groups) is a act of "cool", this happens to both young people and older, problem is when their young (you learn more/capable of learning more in the first 7 years of life than the rest or so ive heard) imprints the ideals of soceity since you cant just randomly stop believing something youve been rammed with for the past years. What makes me diffrent is that as an independant thinker, I dont smoke if the people I am with do so, I dont have sex just because Ime attracted to someone, I dont blindly follow beliefs and social taboos.
A few people? ime not just thinking of a few people, ime thinking of soceity as a whole, being gay on a whole is not seen as "wrong" from one point of view, which is why many ages see calling someone gay as a derogatory term when its simply a sexual preferance. Yet later on those same people may start smoking, ignoring packets that say "smoking kills" just because their social group does so, its when theres logical sense in doing something, and only perhaps a few do it for their own reasons when its independant. its social control when everyone does something or when a view is seen as correct to a larger group of people and so other people, especially younger generations see that as "correct" and follow it simply because thats whats said. Same with too many people who follow beliefs of large groups just because they want to fit in.
ofcourse not, but then since were not going to do that and were not going to actually prove it, simply saying "many people will agree" is foolish since its irrelvent to the argument.