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Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69 by wtbob on Thursday January 14, 2016 @12:52PM (#10902996)
> My children are free to make up their own minds about what they do with their lives when they reach an age where they can reason for themselves.

That assumes that reason, not emotion, is the primary motivator, no?

> Until then, I do my best to keep any ideological or religious influence from trying to exert itself upon them.

'Be nice to others' is ideology (albeit very weak). I imagine that you don't keep that from them.

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Re:Alan Rickman, Harry Potter and Die Hard Actor, Dies Aged 69 by cuckcuckspruce on Friday January 15, 2016 @09:33AM (#10909496)
>'Be nice to others' is ideology

I don't think 'Be nice to others' is ideology. It may be part of an ideology, but I don't think that it an ideology in itself.

'Be nice to others' is also not a totalizing idea in the same way that Christianity is - not everything in the world happens because somebody was or was not nice to others. Christianity takes as its base that everything is/was the will of their god.

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