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Re:Eton College exam question asks students to justify the A... by fullshark on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:21AM (#21629598)
In general I agree this is a good thing, but I do wonder if it leads to a modern day society where educated people are able to rationalize the indefensible, as long as it's good for whatever organization/bureaucracy they've aligned themselves with.
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Re:Eton College exam question asks students to justify the A... by shantly on Monday November 25, 2019 @11:26AM (#21629687)
> I do wonder if it leads to a modern day society where educated people are able to rationalize the indefensible, as long as it's good for whatever organization/bureaucracy they've aligned themselves with

We have good reason to believe this has been the case since at least 500ish BCE and one may well suppose the phenomenon pre-dates that, so it seems to be more a society thing than a modern day society thing. It's probably hard to educate people to defend or promote ideas well without also enabling them to defend or promote bad ideas better than most people can do for good ones.

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