(September 10, 2015 at 2:13 am)MTL Wrote: ...
It just blows my mind that there are still parents, in this day and age,
who confuse keeping their kids ignorant,
with keeping them innocent.
...
Yes. But it also was idiotic for people in the past (not just idiotic "in this day and age"). My mother was a very devout Southern Baptist fundamentalist (if you want to get the idea, visit this site, which is only a slight exaggeration). But she did not confuse ignorance with innocence. She wanted me to be abstinent, but she did not want me to be ignorant.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
