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But the ideal is a father and a mother.
Again, why do you say this? Based upon what knowledge?
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My super duper reality detector tells me so.
Oh, so you are basing it upon nothing but ignorance and prejudice.
Got it.
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And again, it's common sense. A person with common sense doesn't need research to prove it.
It is common sense that the sun travels around the Earth. It is common sense that the Earth is flat. It is common sense that people with dark skin are inferior in most ways to people with light skin. It is common sense that women are not as smart as men.
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I totally disagree. My super duper reality detector tells me you are wrong.
Common sense never indicated any of these things to anybody. If you hadn't had somebody explain to you at school that the Earth orbits the sun, why would you think that it does?
Do you think that the very primitive tribes deep in the Amazon rainforest think it is "common sense" that the Earth orbits the sun?
No, the reason you believe the above to be false is due to the
accumulated knowledge discovered over the centuries by people who
questioned so-called "common sense".
It's knowledge, Faith, that informs you regarding those examples I provided, not common sense.
If everybody didn't think they were obvious, why were they held to be obviously true and common sensical for so long?
Like I said, "common sense" is simply accumulated prejudice based upon faulty or incomplete knowledge, and if you, Faith, reject all scientific research, you are doomed to forever form opinions based upon faulty and incomplete knowledge, becoming even more smug and prejudiced in your willful ignorance.
Edited by schrafinator, : No reason given.