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How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated
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RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated
Using Popeyespappy's definition of "indoctrination", the answer to the original question follows something like this. Someone realizes they have been indoctrinated into a particular belief when they realize that their learning about it was carefully managed to present only one view as acceptable. When they discover that others see the same things in a variety of ways which can be defended as well as the one they've had cultivated in themselves then they know they have been indoctrinated.

There may be instances of indoctrination where one doesn't mind. One might reason that having been brought up with certain values that those values justify the one sided attempt to instill them. One might even decide to pass them along in the same way. I'm not sure this falls so far outside the norm as to be universally damnable.
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How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Clueless Morgan - February 15, 2014 at 1:00 am
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Angrboda - February 15, 2014 at 2:53 pm
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by popeyespappy - February 15, 2014 at 4:22 pm
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Angrboda - February 16, 2014 at 4:49 pm
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Clueless Morgan - February 17, 2014 at 12:31 am
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Angrboda - February 17, 2014 at 1:24 am
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Whateverist - February 17, 2014 at 12:10 pm
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Angrboda - February 17, 2014 at 4:45 pm
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Whateverist - February 17, 2014 at 10:09 pm
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Clueless Morgan - February 17, 2014 at 11:11 pm
RE: How to Tell You've Been Indoctrinated - by Whateverist - February 18, 2014 at 12:36 am

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