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Originally Posted by tiger777
It isn't illogical necessarily, but the point is without analyzing and questioning everything you know and have ever been taught you set yourself up to believe in many false ideas.
If you believe whatever your parents believe you simply put it up to chance as to whether they're right or not without any evidence supporting it.
It is said believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see. Meaning you should rarely take someone word for something without doing proper research on your own and or coming up with sufficient logic to come to an agreement with what they say.
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I'm all for analysis and research and informed decision making, but I don't think that these activities are necessary for a decision to be logical. I agree with the principle of what you're saying.
I just don't think that the concept of "logic" as it is defined colloquially is necessarily all that useful in evaluating the validity of a perspective. The concept of logic is meaningless if one is to take it in any sort of absolute sense. If one wants to be that strict about it, there are no ideas which are completely logically valid, which means every idea is illogical, including the idea that logically valid ideas are better than logically invalid ideas.
Fortunately there's really no need to be strict about it, because logic is the kind of thing that can be based off of completely arbitrary assumptions. If one assumes that fitting in with their family is more important than fitting in with the scientific community, then a completely logical result of this might be for that person to remain purposefully ignorant of anything facts which disagree with their parents' perspective.