[mjp]

Even if you end up agreeing with your parents in the long term, at some point, a rational human being questions and tests the assertions of truth laid out before them. You come to your own conclusions, even if they were biased by your upbringing, a rational person comes to those conclusions on their own terms, not just because their parents saw the world the same way.

Intellectual dependence is the acceptance of ideas,beliefs,concepts,and conclusions of other men without understanding the steps that led to them.Such men attempt to function on the higher levels of a complex structure of knowledge without having established the requisite base of knowledge.Their mental activity consists in building confusion on confusion, instead of knowledge on knowledge.Their beliefs and opinions are detached from facts and from cognition.

[miss marmelstein]

No one that I’ve ever met who came from a left wing ideology as a child EVER, EVER outgrew it - with the exception of David Horowitz and a handful of others. Conservatives often “outgrow” it - because they go on to college.