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Originally Posted by Sonist
Frankly, I personally feel that religious brainwashing of children probably causes greater long-term harm than experimenting with sex or drugs, but I don't go around calling for the banning of "Bible Stories for Children...."
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Unfortunately, that would go against the rights of the brainwashers, which as you know, are ... uh... sacred
. Harm and happiness, though they can be pragmatically (read - objectively) defined to a large extent, are instead defined solely by consensus in most (if not all) societies. When such consensus happens to agree with the pragmatic definition, we (or at least
I) call that society "civilized". Make of that what you will - I've no intention of actually
using this definition at the moment, but I don't think anyone can deny that it's a sound one.