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Originally posted by Ustwo
Being open minded has nothing to do with being accepting of other ideas, only willing to examine them based on their merits. If the ideas do not stand up to scrutiny, then you can safely ignore them without being 'close minded'.
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The first sentence, not the second.
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If the ideas do not stand up to scrutiny, then you can safely ignore them without being 'close minded'.
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Whose scrutiny?
Yours?
Is your scrutiny really _yours_?
Where did your rules and facts that you judge by come from?
Objective scrutiny?
How objective can a person be, given that he or she is drenched in experience they cannot shake themselves from (and succumb too by trying to rid themselves of it)?
Right is right until it's wrong, or we decide that right means wrong.
Logic is only logical, because we say it's so.
1 + 1 = 2
Only in our culture.