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Neutral valuesNeutral valuesPosted Dec 30, 2012 19:45 UTC (Sun) by viro (subscriber, #7872)In reply to: Neutral values by gerv Parent article: Petition: promote the use of free software in US schools
Do tell, what kind of ideology is there in, say, teaching kids how to wipe their arses? And how does existence of God enter the process of teaching them that, unless you seriously try to mix it with discussion of e.g. Deuteronomy.
School or not (and I bloody well hope that this particular topic is dealt with at home, thank you very much), not everything is ideological and temptation to bring ideology into everything really ought to be resisted, whatever that ideology might be.
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Neutral values Posted Dec 30, 2012 20:35 UTC (Sun) by gerv (subscriber, #3376) [Link] "temptation to bring ideology into everything really ought to be resisted, whatever that ideology might be" That view would be, er, an ideology then. Do you think children should be taught moral behaviour at school? If not, how would you go about making school an a-moral place? If so, then you've already brought in a set of values/ideology/worldview when you decide what the "moral behaviour" is that you are teaching. http://blog.gerv.net/2012/12/neutrality/ Gerv
Neutral values Posted Dec 31, 2012 20:39 UTC (Mon) by jedidiah (guest, #20319) [Link]
It is an extreme minority viewpoint that religion has to be injected into ever facet of life to the point of thanking God for a successful bowel movement. For the vast majority of people, religion is not directly relevant to most things. Beyond that, there are really not as many differences between religions as many people would like to make out.
As long as you avoid the blatant practice of religion, it's easy to keep that stuff bottled up.
The other moral and ethical implications are in fact universal despite the insistence by some groups that they have some sort of monopoly.
The problem is really not hard. The outliers can go join the Amish.
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