{"id":56984,"date":"2024-01-26T11:39:40","date_gmt":"2024-01-26T10:39:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/live-without-harming\/publications\/let-us-think-for-ourselves-and-say-no-to-toxic-indoctrination\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T12:23:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T11:23:21","slug":"think-for-yourself-and-say-no-to-toxic-indoctrination","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/institutodelbienestar.com\/en\/live-without-harming\/publications\/think-for-yourself-and-say-no-to-toxic-indoctrination\/","title":{"rendered":"THINK FOR YOURSELF AND SAY NO TO TOXIC INDOCTRINATION"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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LET US LIVE WITHOUT CAUSING HARM! LET US THINK FOR OURSELVES AND WIPE OUT TOXIC INDOCTRINATION <\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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One of the great causes of human evil is indoctrination into cruelty. One example is teaching children that animals are a kind of thing at people\u2019s service and that we can therefore use them, abuse them, and mistreat them at our convenience. Others include that homosexuals are depraved people detested by God who must be killed or subjected to punishments that cause them suffering, or that women are men\u2019s property, and that men therefore have the right to use violence against them. <\/p>

Therefore, it is advisable to avoid instilling malicious values in children, and for that it would be good to recognize children\u2019s right not to have their minds polluted in that way. Because they belong to no one, not even their parents, but to themselves. They are not mere objects that form part of their parents\u2019 assets, like the house and the car. <\/span>In fact, rather than rights over their children, parents have responsibilities toward them, with the child\u2019s best interests prevailing over the parents\u2019 wishes. <\/span><\/p>

In this regard, toxic brainwashing is not good for a child; what is good is developing practical skills, acquiring useful knowledge, and learning to think for oneself so that they can decide their own path, not the one their educators want. <\/p>

It is a valuable asset to develop the ability to verify what is demonstrable and verifiable truth and what is not. Also, to internalize universal values that contribute to a world as fair and happy as possible, such as a culture of <\/span>respect<\/u><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>justice<\/u><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>honesty<\/u><\/a><\/span>, <\/span>tolerance<\/u><\/a><\/span> toward everything that is not abusive, <\/span>consideration<\/u><\/a><\/span> toward others and <\/span>not harming anyone<\/u><\/a><\/span> except in legitimate self-defense. Therefore, let us instill in them day after day and year after year the <\/span>ethics of kindness<\/u><\/a><\/span> instead of doctrines that drive them to cause suffering to innocents. Let us bring out the best version of themselves: a polished and shining one instead of a rusty one.<\/span><\/p>

Read the DODECALOGUE OF KINDNESS<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/p>

If we detect that our children are being subjected at school or in other settings to some religious, ideological, nationalist, or any other kind of indoctrination, let us encourage them to question the truth of those ideas. Let us ask them for irrefutable evidence for them, which they will be unable to provide. <\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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If they see gods or angels in the sky, if they perceive demons or other abstract beings, we can ask them to show us exactly where they are or, better yet, to provide us with photos of them.<\/p>\n

However, once a person is mentally programmed, from a certain age it can be difficult to change such brainwashing\u2014sometimes very difficult.<\/p>\n

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The more intelligent, educated, well-traveled, and open-minded an individual is, the easier it will be for them to think for themselves and question the indoctrination they have received. Conversely, the more conservative they are and the more closed, obtuse, intolerant, and provincial the environment in which they were raised, the more they will tend to cling to the software that has been installed in that computer that is their brain throughout their childhood and youth. <\/p>\n

LIVING WITHOUT CAUSING HARM: Let us be conservative about what is good and progressive about what is harmful<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

There are even people who are so stubbornly attached to the narrative they were indoctrinated with that, even if we give them proof after proof, data after data showing it is incorrect, it will be useless, because it will slide off them like water off oil.<\/p>\n

This will happen to a greater extent when they have a strong need to belong to a doctrinal community\u2014that is, to adhere to a group and its dogmas, rules, obligations, prohibitions, rituals, and ceremonies, even if they are absurd or even extremely cruel and abhorrent.<\/p>\n

HOW TO LIVE WITHOUT HARMING? Let’s avoid harmful herd mentality<\/span><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

FOR A WORLD WITHOUT HARM: Let us oppose poisonous dogmatism<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

But not all is lost, because there are excellent remedies to free ourselves from all those constraints:<\/p>\n