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From: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods)
Newsgroups: net.singles
Subject: Re: responsibility, sensitivity, the usual stuff
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Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 13:32:55 EST
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> As far as what you've been taught, you become responsible for that
> knowledge the moment you accept it.  Therefore, any actions that you take
> based on something you've been taught are your responsibility because you
> accepted what you've been taught as being the truth.

  Very well put. The problem is that many people treat their own personal
beliefs as though they were "facts" instead of beliefs. Failure to be
willing to question one's own beliefs does not absolve one from responsibility
for their own place in actual reality.

--Greg