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>>11410904

>Are you a parent? Have you ever seen a human grow from infant to adult?

No and yes, respectively.

>Rather than reading someone elses perpsective or idea on the situation, have you yourself seen it with your own eyes?

Reading exists in order to expand our knowledge beyond the bounds of our own tiny experience; scientific research exists for similar reasons. To rely solely or even primarily upon one's own experience at the expense of these things is to voluntarily impoverish one's own intellect and hobble his ability to make sense of the world and his place within it.