Think for yourself.
Ideally, free individuals should not seek “truth” from any individual or group. Instead, it is everyone’s duty to seek the truth themselves, even paradoxically, in matters of faith.
I love-love-love the above movie. I admit that it helps that the protagonist is named Brian.
A free society demands this (thinking for oneself), and civilization depends upon it. Though sometimes shortcuts are taken (accepting some truths of others), there is always a cost. Blindly adopting the views of others will progressively undermine an individual’s capacity to think for themselves and simultaneously empower others with corrupting power over them.
Over time, society will become unstable as various dysrational authoritarians rise to fight for control of the uncontested and “controllable” minds. Ultimately, weak minds make fertile fields for social conflict.
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