re: #78 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Educational standards are on the decline, and among the first things that got left by the wayside were teaching the scientific method, a critical and multi-source approach to information and general information on civics and history.
This realization I had made me conclude that every belief, regardless of how appealing it is, should be subjected to fact checking before whole heartedly accepting it. I also realized some arguments cannot be resolved because they are mostly subjective in nature.