RE: Why only religious beliefs protected?
September 25, 2023 at 11:09 am
(This post was last modified: September 25, 2023 at 11:16 am by FrustratedFool.)
(September 25, 2023 at 10:56 am)Angrboda Wrote: I suspect religious beliefs are protected for the combination of evidence-free, dogmatically based nature of the beliefs and that they are instilled through indoctrination of children. It's sort of a reverse recognition of the exploitation of children's vulnerability in exposing them to these kinds of beliefs.
Wouldn't that apply, at least in theory, to ethical beliefs or cultural and family beliefs/practices? If I had communism beaten into me as a child (or vegetarianism, or belief in Santa, or whatever) why should that not be protected, but a recent adult convert to Sikhism receive legal safety?
Also, if that can be used to explain why religious beliefs are protected, it doesn't explain why more reasoned beliefs are excluded. Surely it would be best to protect both?
