When I was a kid nobody locked their doors or their cars. If you went hunting or fishing you left the keys in the truck in case someone had an emergency. Nobody touched what wasn't theirs. It was only when people started moving out from the city to our areas that things started to change. It seemed like city people lived by a different set of rules that lacked the morality of country folk. As for critical thinking, we got that from the WWII vets who had seen the horrors that government caused and spoke out against it. They never talked about the horrors they saw but they were determined to keep us from knowing what they had had to do. Curiously it was the government hand in hand with the movie moguls that brought it to the kids. Far too many of us were captured by the Hollywood bullshit that glamourized killing and promoted racism. Very few of us weren't suckered in by it. Those of us who weren't were the ones blessed with the gift of critical thinking.
Peter, critical thinking doesn't come automatically/naturally or otherwise because of life experiences, events, even formal or informal education, etc. One has to specifically study 'critical thinking' - which includes understanding how human minds work & think - the logical fallacies, biases, heuristics, human cognitive errors, and more that trip up EVERY HUMAN on the planet.
When I was a kid nobody locked their doors or their cars. If you went hunting or fishing you left the keys in the truck in case someone had an emergency. Nobody touched what wasn't theirs. It was only when people started moving out from the city to our areas that things started to change. It seemed like city people lived by a different set of rules that lacked the morality of country folk. As for critical thinking, we got that from the WWII vets who had seen the horrors that government caused and spoke out against it. They never talked about the horrors they saw but they were determined to keep us from knowing what they had had to do. Curiously it was the government hand in hand with the movie moguls that brought it to the kids. Far too many of us were captured by the Hollywood bullshit that glamourized killing and promoted racism. Very few of us weren't suckered in by it. Those of us who weren't were the ones blessed with the gift of critical thinking.
Peter, critical thinking doesn't come automatically/naturally or otherwise because of life experiences, events, even formal or informal education, etc. One has to specifically study 'critical thinking' - which includes understanding how human minds work & think - the logical fallacies, biases, heuristics, human cognitive errors, and more that trip up EVERY HUMAN on the planet.
Here is my response (with some learning resources) to Jenny -> https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/anti-zionism-is-anti-semitism/comment/113926659
If you prefer reading books, here are some suggestions ->
(1) The Art of Thinking Clearly (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16248196-the-art-of-thinking-clearly)
(2) A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking with Statistics and the Scientific Method (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54879347-a-field-guide-to-lies)
(3) Thinking, Fast and Slow (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11468377-thinking-fast-and-slow)