Does a person’s beliefs make them good or bad?

For instance, if someone’s religious or political beliefs don’t line up with your own, does that make them a bad person or a stupid person in your opinion??
Would that be the end of trying to understand the person, or would you continue to interact with them on other topics?

I would hope most people wouldn’t label someone so harshly simply because they have differing opinions/belief systems….but sadly, it seems to be a common practice…?

Especially online….?

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in10RjFox · M

It may not necessarily make them a good person for it's subjective. But if they try to thrust their beliefs on to others, that would make them a bad person as they wish to destroy the belief system of the other and place theirs in its place.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@in10RjFox Don't all parents do that: thrust their beliefs on their children?

in10RjFox · M

@sree251 oh yes.. more than beliefs, the fear they infuse and instil is intolerable. And a child never retaliates.. so it's easy to enslave the child and install a belief system before the child develops one on its own.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@in10RjFox Are all parents bad then?

Diotrephes · 70-79, M

@in10RjFox

By that standard creeps such as Moses was a very bad person. He had his goons kill over three thousand men (not counting women and children) because they wanted to exercise freedom of religion. He forced the survivors to adopt his BS beliefs.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@Diotrephes You said: :"By that standard creeps such as Moses was a very bad person. He had his goons kill over three thousand men (not counting women and children) because they wanted to exercise freedom of religion. He forced the survivors to adopt his BS beliefs."

Where did you get this information about Moses?

in10RjFox · M

@Diotrephes IMO .. most such characters are fictional. Script writers create such characters and stories for the moment, without realizing its consequence. Most people were illiterates at that time, so it was easy to sell all the BS. Reason why such stories are first told to kids before their intellect develops, so they to believe it as real and suffer from it all life.

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sree251 · 41-45, M

@in10RjFox You said: "Not to say Parents are bad, but it is their insecurity and worry about the future, that makes them enslave their children."

It's not just human parents, mothers in the wild do condition their offspring to react to perceived danger. Human society is more complex, and dangers in the psychological realm add to the enslavement you speak of.

in10RjFox · M

@sree251

It's not just human parents, mothers in the wild do condition their offspring to react to perceived danger.

your statement has a fallacy .. false equivalence, where you mean mothers in the wild are inhuman. Also we are not talking about Mothers in the wild, but educated and modern parents who are the society. Mothers in the wild have to condition to perceived danger, but don't have the capability to brainwash their children, and they are the ones who beyond a point don't control their children and let them in the wild.

sree251 · 41-45, M

@in10RjFox You said: "Mothers in the wild have to condition to perceived danger, but don't have the capability to brainwash their children, and they are the ones who beyond a point don't control their children and let them in the wild."

"Mothers in the wild" (e.g. bears, cougars, etc) are not human. Yes, they have to condition the young to perceived danger. You made a good distinction: brainwashing.

Human parents do brainwash their children mainly because we are psychological beings living in different cultural settings; especially, here in America. China is different: one culture.

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