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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
And the worst part? Many people don't even realize it.
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Most of our ascendant brahmin class genuinely don't know how to defend their beliefs rationally, any more than homeschooled fundamentalist Christians do. In both cases they hold their values as received wisdom, sacred and above criticism.
He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.
- John Stuart Mill