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Originally Posted by Hottentot
Which creates a semi-related question:
Can a person by his/her own reasoning become a supporter of what authorities say? Because it seems that whenever people are being called to think for themselves, it also includes the implication of disagreeing with the authorities. I for one agree with quite many things that my country's authorities do and say, while disagreeing with others. Am I a brainwashed sheep?
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No it doesn't!
Of course there is a big difference if you actually approached it in a reasonably intelligent manner beforehand, then decided that you agree with it. But many people dont do that
They just follow popular opinion and are instantly willing to belive anything the government or media tells them at face value - which is increadibly trusting when you consider the frequencey they have been proven to lie and spin.
Bringing you truth and accuracy is WAY, WAY down their list of priorities. Why? because they aren't required to, too many are willing to swallow up any old crap they come out with. So if its in their interest to spin it in favor of their political alignment, shareholders or corperate ties or whatever, they will quite happily do so, they dont care about morality.
The same can be true of those who follow unpopular opinion for aguments sake, lets say you joined the '9/11 truth movment' based on one persons argument or some crappy video of building 7, if you failed to actually reserch their allegations properly first, that would make you sheep too!
Doesn't matter who tells us what, its the way our though process responds to it (if at all).
Everything deserves a fair anaylasis no matter how plausible or implausible it sounds at first, thankfully most everyday things only require a few seconds or less, but politics and major events require a hell of a lot more than that, since they are rarely black and white!
Trouble is, people often make an automatic assumption based on what and who we would PREFER to believe.
Honestly? eveyone could do a bit better than that if they bothered to try.