This indoctrination = Intellectual Rape allegation from another poster is disgusting. If that's true, telling a child not to steal or bully is intellectual rape, since it indoctrinates a child into the parents way of thinking, even if its not in the child's best interest. What would you recommend, tossing our young into the forest and letting them raise themselves?
Indoctrinate: to instruct especially in fundamentals or rudiments; to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle.
"Don't steal because it is the law not to", is a whole lot different than "don't have sex because you will go to hell".
"Treat others with respect if you want to be respected yourself" is a lot different than "be kind to others [except blacks, gays, women, ######s, midgets and other blasphemies] or god will punish you".
Maybe it's just my view on this, but morals are not (should not?) be indoctrinated into you. They are just part of being a good person. Follow the law, be kind to others. Either do it or don't do it. But don't just do it because something is going to happen to you if you don't. Do it because you believe it is the right thing to do.
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