Yes, OP. You are correct.
This is actually a really excellent point.
It also ties back into how educators used to omit so much detail about Christopher Columbus
Teaching about evil without teaching why it is evil
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@Swagnarok
My guess is that the latter group outnumbers the former, but either could lead to the same end: a new model of education wherein students must accept as an article of dogma that Mustachestan is evil without ever having been taught why it's evil. What I'm raising is a hypothetical where, 30 or 40 years from now, your average young person will have never heard of a certain major genocide, because their textbooks skipped that part in favor of vague generalities about the nature of evil and conflations of this idea with Mustachestan.And when, in the spirit of youthful rebellion, many of these decide to buck said dogma and embrace the idea that "Actually, Mustachestan was good" (I.e. your average edgelord Satanist who grew up in a strict Pentecostal household), they won't understand that this is an immoral position to hold. Sure, they'll know that their teachers and society say it's immoral, but they'll have no reason to uncritically accept this, since the entire time it will have been asserted without any proof given.
I think that is a plausible prediction, I don't think it's 30 years away either, I think the start of the process has already begun.
I have been surprised how many people from different political camps seem to be unaware of the spirit of youthful rebellion you speak of despite the fact that it has been a constant in human history and the birth of many cultural revolutions against dogma.
What you observe isn't isolated, it's a general turning away from rationality. It was never really taught as well as it should have been, but it had a fierce stronghold in universities (1850 -> 1950 especially) that is now wholly absent.
A rabbi Wolpe who did an interview on the Dave Rubin show once described something called "cut flower ethics".
"They stay fresh for a while, but without the soil that nurtured them, how long does that stay... the question is transmissibility"
I believe this phenomenon is real, but the soil is not a bronze age belief in a god whose great moral insight consisted of such things as "don't murder, don't steal, don't lie, worship me".
The soil is reason, and it always was. Those who raise children on faith will never control what they have faith in, or what they will corrupt. They will be controlled by internal psychological processes they do not understand or they will be controlled by deceptive leaders they have no tools to contradict.
The soil is reason, and it always was. Those who raise children on faith will never control what they have faith in, or what they will corrupt. They will be controlled by internal psychological processes they do not understand or they will be controlled by deceptive leaders they have no tools to contradict.
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Another interesting quote from this interview was "The claim that there is such a thing as a truth is somewhat counter cultural" - Rabbi Wolpe 6:50
That I have found to be absolutely true. If I had a dime for every time I said "X is objectively true" and a bunch of petty zombies rush in to say "truth is subjective" or "there is no objective truth" or some such drivel.
I cannot emphasize how different that response is from "No, you're wrong, show us your logic and your evidence."
They're not saying I did it wrong, they're saying nobody can do it.
Their epistemology has fallen and they can't really believe anything because of evidence. If they believe mustachean is evil just because (as a misguided person in this thread said) 'evil is just evil' that is because that is the ONLY thing they can think with that gaping epistemology shaped hole in their brain.
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In conclusion, yes the evidence of the Mustachestan behavior should be taught. It is history and all history should be taught.
It is not teaching to make students say "that is evil", if they do not conclude that with their own logic and conviction then they have not learned what they needed to: Philosophy.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Truth is subjective.