I've been thinking about what I'd teach my child if I had one. So far, I have:
1. Beliefs can and should be challenged
2. Never haggle in a charity shop
1. Beliefs can and should be challenged
2. Never haggle in a charity shop
3. Women are people
4. Pretentious isn't the same thing as educated.
5. Never be for or against anything just to be different
6. You have to treat people differently to treat them fairly
7. Advertising is propaganda
8. There's no truth in any one isolated fact
9. Gentleness is not weakness
10. Never buy anything offered to you unsolicited
11. If it doesn't cause actual harm, you don't get to complain about it
12. You don't have to have muscles to be tough
13. If you have to be an asshole to win, you win at being an asshole
14. Pick a side; there are enough commentators already
15. White is not a race, it is an ideology
16. Things you are born with are not achievements
17. Which arbitrary landmass you were born onto reflects nothing about your value or character
18. An opinion that isn't reasoned isn't an opinion
19. Politicians against bureaucracy are against the civil rights it enshrines
