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Movie Friday: Outnumbered

  • April 8, 2011
  • by Crommunist
  • · blog · critical thinking · funny · movie · religion

I had a discussion/debate with Scary Fundamentalist about the strength of kids’ “bullshit detectors”. My basic stance was that, given the opportunity and a set of unbiased facts, kids are pretty good at sorting out what is real and what isn’t. However, when you tell them that something is real, they tend to believe you because… well… they’re kids. Today’s video illustrates that:

*Mutter* another video with embedding disabled. Sorry.

While this is played for laughs, it is an incredibly tragic state of affairs that kids are indoctrinated in environments where they aren’t given the skills to evaluate the truth of the axioms they are taught. Sure, I was raised in a religious household (kinda) and was taught to believe in a deity, but I was also taught skills of appraisal of facts, and exposed to dissenting opinions. It’s all well and good to say “let the kids decide for themselves”, but when you insulate people from dissenting opinions, there’s really not much of a decision to make.

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  1. G.Syme April 8, 2011 · Reply

    Man, that was awesome 😀 I really need to watch the rest of that show.

    • Crommunist April 11, 2011 · Reply

      Yeah you’ve gotta love Reddit for uncovering hidden gems

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