2007-02-07 08:10:56 · 16 answers · asked by Anashuya 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Humanity needs balance.
Consider, if everyone was a free thinker or followed whatever a free thinker advised, we would be like chaff blowing in the wind, going this way than that. We need the opposition, the conservative, to put the skids on free thought, to ground us in the present.
Free thought is not always good thought.
(Religion has nothing to do with it)
2007-02-09 09:32:24 · answer #1 · answered by deepndswamps 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's more comforting to many people to have a structure that is infallible. To be a true free-thinker, you have to accept the fact that many questions do not have a for sure answer -- and that is too troubling for so many people. I am a free thinker, and often I wish I had stayed "in the box".
2007-02-07 17:09:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cuz most people dont want to think outside what they are taught thus making them not be like ave the idea of free thinkers
2007-02-07 16:41:01 · answer #3 · answered by cable 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because often the ideas that people have are extremely inconvenient to their every day lives. They're just too busy to put up with it, have worked too hard to give something up. They think 'free thinkers' are crazy.
2007-02-07 16:41:20 · answer #4 · answered by spewing_originality 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because most aren't free thinkers ;)
2007-02-08 00:22:40 · answer #5 · answered by Source 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Many free thinkers are actually incredibly narrow-minded and blinkered. They cannot accept criticism and console themselves with the theory that any opposition is borne of social conditioning and ignorance. In fact, they are themselves unwittingly conditioned and get consumed with bucking the system, instead of 'free thinking'.
2007-02-07 17:00:21 · answer #6 · answered by rainbowfairy41 1 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is considered irrational to question our analytical reasoning. Actually, society's reasoning. We are stuck in a rut when it comes to this. Anyone who dares search for a better way, or even an alternative way, is considered insane. Of course, I may be looking at this from a far deeper perspective than what you intended.
2007-02-07 18:35:48 · answer #7 · answered by Fox Paws 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Most people can't accept something that's different from what they call normal. It's a good thing everybody's not like that. We wouldn't have computers, Internet, cars, soft serve ice cream, Mr Coffee or indoor toilets
2007-02-08 00:32:26 · answer #8 · answered by persnickety1022 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
free thinkers almost always advocate radical change and its human nature to resist alterations of the status quo
2007-02-07 19:05:11 · answer #9 · answered by Norman 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The point of evolution of the mental body within the bulk of the human race is not that highly developed at this time .
2007-02-08 01:02:41 · answer #10 · answered by mikehughes06@yahoo.ca 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋