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You don't think that coming to your own conclusion about the world isn't a little more advanced than doing what your father does because your father does it?

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Becoming one's own man is a process that does not automatically imply the abandonment of fatherly emulation. If a son who admires his Dad so much that he wishes to emulate his father to whatever extent (a desire amongst many fathers I'm sure), this does not automatically imply that the son has stagnated intellectually.