Why Is Skepticism Is Important

Why? How? What? This are commonly asked questions made by children. They are sponges that gather knowledge and absorb everything they get. Most people might consider it an annoying quality, but questioning everything is the sole thing that helps them grow. By making all those questions, they learn and appease their need for information. Based on this quality, we can as-sume that children are by design skeptics, and in my opinion, we must all strive to become more like them. Even though society views skepticism as a negative quality, it is the road to progress. It helps us, our community, and future generations. It helps you find the reason for something and think beyond the walls society has built for you. It lets your mind roam freely and identify problems or cracks in those walls. Skepticism has many purposes. One of them is helping you become a more cultural, refined and open-minded individual. If you gain information from
With this in mind, we need to start being conscious in our government’s decisions, in our family’s customs, and in our own mindset. Albert Einstein once said, “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” If we are followers and blind believers, our superiors won’t have the pressure of doing the right things. They will start lacking in certain moral areas because they aren’t being questioned. An example being rulers and monarchs of the past that were not ques-tioned or challenged. They stole money from their people and caused many deaths produced by meaningless wars. We have to push them and let them see our involvement in their choices so that they can be conscious of their decisions. We have to start now! Why leave for later things we can change today? It’s now or never! We have to act fast before it’s too late and our future generations are in a bad situation, like an economic crisis, because of our lack of