I think that we don't know anything until we are taught it. We are born ignorant. For the most part, our ignorance as children shape the way we learn. We know what we know because we don't know any better, so we take what is taught to us to be true. Its only natural. It's the way we learn. For example, the first time we do something. wrong, we are told that that is not the correct way of doing that action. After, we want to learn the correct way, and when we do, we store that information in the backs of our minds forever. Then when the situation faces us again, we know the correct method of going about it. Whether we choose to do what is wanted or correct is a different subject, but in essence, we will go with the moralistically correct way.
Also, we know what we know because we went through experiences of the situation first-hand.
"The American people don't believe anything until they see it on television."
-Richard Nixon
I agree, we only truly know things once it's been trialed and tested multiple times and accepted throughout society that it can be shown on television.
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