Last month, I accidentally unloaded some of my beliefs on a friend with regards to how a number of issues that are reacted to by members in our society (US) appear to be fundamentally related to education. Generally, I feel that some appear to distinguish their general right of freedom of speech that they share with others as something entirely different when compared to "information". These, however, are the same and the way in which we are educated is directly tied to the way that we interpret information. This is fundamental because information is how we distinguish reality. To clarify, when I refer to the first amendment I'm not referring to the... (read 2941 more words →)
I think that we'll need to figure this out at some point to be able to clearly distinguish these things to children. Not being able to distinguish fact from fiction can lead to the propagation of non-factual information that will be then be discerned as fact as dictated by the overall consensus of a said individual's community. Our present tools on the internet are very good at determining relevancy (which is debatable of course), but they are not the best at determining verity or distinguishing bias.
We're have to assume that a source of factual information is altruistic and that they actually do the research in order to distinguish one from another. But... (read more)
Apologies for the long delay, as I took a "technology-less" vacation after writing this...But, Yes. I've always wondered the same thing... as along with your example, it seems like failure being measured as a cost could be applied to a number of concepts. I can't really speak for others (of course), but I believe that "murdering" and "learning" being treated as "concepts" to assign value to can be part of the reason.
If you don't mind.. I'll rephrase your example because my phrase which you quoted (sounds busted, heh), but "driving up the value...elsewhere" does not seem cohesive to the preface, "we all likely believe some information should not be learned". In hindsight... (read more)