Disgusting Example of Indoctrination

[abaris]

I'm imagining a society where it's virtually unheard of to ever indoctrinate your child. So if a child turns up at school and starts talking about demons, ghosts, human sacrifices, eternal damnation and so on... it would become very clear that their parents would have been filling their head with it. This could warrant investigation. In such a hypothetical society, doing this would mean the parents were either insane, or extremely ignorant of the well-known harm caused by such indoctrination.

Everyone indoctrinates their children in one way or the other. It's called upbringing. You can't help teaching what you consider to be values to your offspring. I was lucky enough to be taught secular values, but it's probably as hard for me to deviate from that as it is for a religious person to deviate from their faith.