yhwx said:
darth_ender said:
Does that answer your question?
No, I wasn’t talking about excommunication. I was talking about groups with ideologies more generally. Lemme see if I can explain myself a little better:
- A group at large holds an amount of ideologies.
- Some of those ideologies may be bad ones.
- A person who identifies with that group says that they only support the good/laudable ideologies of the group, not the bad ones.
- Hence the question: at what point does a group hold so many bad ideologies that it becomes necessary to disassociate from the group?
This is probably best suited for another thread… but which?
It probably varies from situation to situation.
. It depends upon the importance of the group in your life. Leaving your book club just can’t be compared to leaving your church or your religion.
. It depends upon how bad the ideology/ideologies that the group has that you disagree with. How important are they. How important are they to you.
. It depends upon what chance you think you may have at influencing change in regards the ideology/ideologies.
. It could also depend how long you’ve been a part of said group. The longer you are with a group, the more difficult it becomes to leave it. I have literally be a part of my church my whole life. There is a nursery in my church where people can take babies to be looked after while they attend the service and/or Sunday school. I used to be a baby in that nursery. I couldn’t leave my church over something minor, it would have to be something big, huge.
. It depends up how compromising you can be. Some just can compromise and/or agree to disagree as much as others can.
. It probably depends upon several various factors which I am just not thinking of right now