How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales technique

Re:How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales... by xerophtye on Thursday September 19, 2013 @04:57AM (#6410592)

Then you're still doing brainwashing/indoctrination. Let's not forget, it's "irrespective of the opinion's merit".

Besides, just as you hold your "must be provable" views dear, similarly the religious parent holds his or her religious views dear.

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Re:How China brainwashed American POWs using a classic sales... by philwelch on Thursday September 19, 2013 @06:01AM (#6410749)

I think there's a useful distinction between teaching a set of opinions that must be held regardless of evidence and teaching the practice of forming one's own opinions based upon evidence, but it's a tricky point to make.

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