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[โ€“] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A literate person has better opportunity to learn ethics and good thinking habits, but they also have better opportunity to confirm their own biases and be manipulated by grifters. It is kind of a wash when it comes to being a good person or not if the rest of the education system doesn't actually educate.

[โ€“] PropaGandalf 6 points 1 month ago

or to reject them altogether