In order to learn more abstract concepts you must approach a thing with an open mind, yet the more open minded people I meet, the more I think the "open minded" are just morally corrupt who need an excuse to hide behind. This "open minded-ness" just a cover for experimentation and vices. So, what I am saying is this, I spare no fondness for this new wave of open-minded people. I think the old ilk of open minded philosophers perhaps need a new term for their mindset.
So, maybe being open minded isn't such a good thing. Perhaps the thing that I admire and try to practice is acceptance. (Acceptance of other people's ability to choose their own religions and beliefs, not acceptance of the increasing depravity of the world, or the medias insistence on desensitizing everyone to the atrocities of the world. Different spiel, different day.)
What I'm trying to tip-toe around I suppose is this, "I've spent the past two years trying to be insanely open minded and I think it may have been a mistake." I think I may have allowed myself to fall into a level of immorality that is just unacceptable. It's not to an extreme degree, but I find lately that I do not like myself. I wish I was a better person. But wishes mean nothing, and all I can do is recognize a mistake I've made and try not to let it dig me deeper into a pit of gibbering-fall-for-everything excrement.
God, throw me a ladder? Ah, but I already have a ladder, it was the God given ability to recognize when you are doing something wrong, and however late, try to fix it.
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You've realized this a heck of a lot earlier than I did. Thing is, I do think people can genuinely be open-minded. But you're completely right in saying that the term is abused and often used as a way to abdicate from personal responsibility (a term many don't particularly care for... wonder why?). There is definitely a line between being non-judgmental and being morally bankrupt. Open-mindedness shouldn't be used as another term for nihilism, but you're pretty spot-on in noticing that to be the case.
It probably started with Epicureas, come to think of it. D:
And hey, you know? There's a difference between respecting someone's right to a belief, and their intelligence in that belief, and respecting the belief itself. Take atheism. I don't respect that particular worldview at all, but I respect the atheist's right to decide his or her worldview. Everyone has to come to that decision on their own. I need to respect each person's right (and their intelligence) in doing so. But that doesn't mean I have to respect the ideology itself.
Keep on truckin', you've got the brains and the heart to work yourself out of wherever it is you don't want to be. I have complete faith in that. :)
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